The national Young Liberals conference is in full swing at the moment, and a few Government ministers have stopped in for a rant. Downer is channelling a 2003-esque Bush to explain why the terrorists win if we ever, ever, leave Iraq. Ruddock is being his usual scary self. But I think the most concise, bone chilling summary of 10 years of the Libs was delivered by Tony Abbot:
"This Government's decisions to overturn the Northern Territory's euthanasia law, ban gay marriage, stop the ACT heroin trial, provide additional financial support for one-income families, and try to reduce abortion numbers through pregnancy support counselling show that the tide of secular humanism was not as irreversible as [was previously] thought."
Yep. Reversing humanist policies is what it's all about. I for one look forward to briefly passing through the heady, laissez-faire renaissance era as we regress to the social values of the middle ages. We can look forward to less sex and more burnings at the stake (especially now that Australia has access to a ready supply of infidels) but on the plus side the handouts for single-income families will be a comfort.
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I like two things about this post:
1) The label 'shite'
2) From the outside, Australian politics is laughable. I've stopped reading news.com.au (mostly a mouthpiece of the govt, IMHO) because it either makes me angry or makes me laugh with pity. I hope to come back to an Australia with a changed government (this year is an election year, right?)
And I also wait with exacerbated fervour for George's debut.
Y'hear that, George? Exacerbated! Get blogging!
Did you catch the other day the whole big thing when Ruddock didn't use exactly the same wording of Kim Beazley (in relations to 'ripping up/getting rid of' the IR reforms), the Libs were saying that Labour were 'undecided' and 'not united'. I mean, Julia Gillard said 'ripping up' at another point and this apparently signifies a 'rift' between her and Ruddock.
Politicians can be such wankers sometimes.
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