Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?

1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

Unfortunately she will also be a dud and hopefully voted out of office.

I guess your right, that is why KRudd had a huge surplus. Thank god we didn’t have the GFC when Paul Keating was in, our bannana republic was already in poor shape.

If fact even if you look back to 1925 you will find critical reports of how labor had spent far too much money while they were in power.

How strange that history repeats itself!

Howard’s claim to fame is not that he rode the sheep’s back, but the resources industry (including trying to steal the East Timorese oil) and oversaw the banking industry’s deregulation and subsequent global economic crisis; then there is the Australian Greenhouse Office pledge of $1 billion, most of which was then funnelled into the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort; then there’s the billions of $ in subsidies to the oil industry and the wasteful ethanol industry and several hundred thousand $’s for alternative energy … we were the world leaders in solar energy in the 70’s !!! and then there’s the Abbot & Costello buffoons.

Costello knowing we are over-populated and under- resourced in potable water and arable land (and now importing over 25% of our fruit and veg) and the dried out Murray Darling; and the ‘one baby for mum, one baby for dad and one for Australia’ … not because we need more people, but because they want more consumers and the young people to be able to make up for pensions stolen, misappropriated and squandered, propping up Howard’s corporate cronies …

When the dust settles … Howard will be weighed, measured and – still – found short.

I must disagree that most politicians are reactionary. Unfortunately they all have to pay back those that help them get into power, this means that even those with good intentions become tainted.

However, if you look at someone like John Howard at least he managed to think about the future and lay the foundation so that we could weather the financial storm. It is really disappointing that KRudd spun himself out of control and destroyed those foundations.

Ask yourself what has he really achieved since he came to power?

You’re right, in the grand scheme of things we are small but the reality is our population is too great for even our over exploited land. Whatever industry we had, the likes of Tony Abbott and Co have encouraged to go overseas by exploiting the lower paid workers; once we were almost totally self reliant on our own oil, that was drilled and sent overseas and now we are almost totally reliant on oil from overseas.
What happens when most of our natural gas is sold overseas and more rare resources like uranium? Even coal is a finite supply, with the easiest / cheapest and better quality already dug up and sold off overseas.
Unfortunately, Tony Abbott and his ilk are not the solution, they are the problem, by helping themselves and their financial backers to our limited resources, by stripping us of an ability to feed, cloth and look after ourselves.
Good management is simple, most people put a cap on the number of children they have because they know they can only budget for so many (food, schooling, housing etc) whereas successive federal (and state) government politicians in Australia have looked to lining their pockets by promoting population growth because more consumers equates to more profits …
Tony Abbott is simple, like the vast majority of politicians they are reactionary rather than being proactive …

But we are good at sport !!

Personally, I don’t think Kevin Rudd has the guts to pull the double dissolution chain, but methinks it could flush the troglodytes of the coalition down the pan of politics … one can but live in hope.