I don’t usually post Australian political news but in light of what has been going on lately I think this article by George Megalogenis was worth sharing.
Personally I feel stuck with the current political situation. Only because I usually prefer one party over the other at any particular time, and in particular when it comes time to voting.
But at the moment I feel that both parties are inept at looking after us and our future and we have no acceptable alternative.
Australia is riding on a mining boom but how long is this going to keep our economy strong. We need more than just words and doing things to keep the poll results positive from our politicians.
This part of the article I found personally interesting …
“Labor’s loss of governing confidence is becoming a genuine national tragedy. Advisers were taking comfort this week that the budget had seemed to draw no big complaints, as if the government just wanted all that yelling to go away for a day or two to give it more time to think.
Australia deserves a more assertive government that can seize the opportunity that comes with being the last rich country standing after the GFC. But Labor has allowed itself to be bullied by the Coalition and the media into a ridiculous place where people call on it to be tough to get the budget back into surplus, then lacerate it for taking a single dollar off some poor upper-income earner.
Abbott’s approach is no different in spirit from Malcolm Fraser’s in 1975, when Australia was last faced with a global economy as temperamental as this one.
The essence of Fraserism was a belief that Labor had so badly managed the nation that it deserved to be run out of office by whatever means, fair or foul. But once power was restored to the conservatives, the nation really fell in a hole.
Fraser expected the economy to behave as it had before the public had made the mistake of voting Labor. He didn’t see the recession of 1975 as an early warning that the old model was broken.”
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