When contesting the election against Paul Keating in 1996, then Oppostion Leader, John Howard stated he would like Australians to feel relaxed and comfortable. At that time Australia was in debt to the tune of $80 billion, our waterfront was one of the most inefficient in the world, inflation was rampant and unemployment was rife. Keating was not able to break this downward spiral because union bosses would not allow him to introduce the necessary workplace reforms to increase productivity. (more…)
Posts Tagged Liberal
Workchoices or No Choices!
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007We’re heading in the right direction – but there’s more to be done!!
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007This election is not about Labor’s record after 12 years in office. If it was they would be thrown out.
Despite a GST windfall, a property boom and record gambling taxes NSW is teetering on the edge of recession. So where has the money gone? How could they have squandered such an opportunity? (more…)
Hang about – what about a hung Parliament?
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007We should brace ourselves for the possibility of minority government after the election on March 24. Given that we now have fixed four year terms in NSW a ‘hung’ Parliament would be the worst possible outcome for the State. It matters not which major political party forms minority government, Labor or Liberal, the result will be the same. Political chaos for the next four years! (more…)
Iraq and Kokoda: similar enemy – different strategy
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Defence Minister Brendon Nelson is spot on with his analogy between the war in Iraq and the battle for Kokoda.
In 1942 our diggers, many of them untrained militia soldiers, faced a fanatical enemy that had not been defeated since the bombing of Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941. Japanese society was led by militarists who indoctrinated their soldiers in the warrior code of bushido. They believed in the divinity of their Emperor and in their divine mission to establish a co-prosperity sphere in South-East Asia and the Pacific. (more…)
