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6th May 2019, 12:00 AM #76GOLD MEMBER
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An election story that might amuse some here. Back in 1973?? when Whitlam got the sand shoe out of government I was wandering through Caringbah shopping centre with my mate on the eve of the election and lo and behold who should pull us up but Tom Uren. For those who are not aware of him he was a minister in the Whitlam government and thought that the Liberals were a scourge put on this earth but he could never figure out what the reason was that they existed, to put it in a few words he hated them. Anyway he starts his spiel and it soon became obvious that we were not really happy with the Labor Party due to their performance in government so he started to literally abuse us and it stopped most of the pedestrians walking by in their tracks because they could not believe what they were seeing. Tom was the salt of the earth but I think he had had enough by then in an election Labor was never going to win.
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6th May 2019, 01:00 AM #77
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6th May 2019, 08:07 AM #78GOLD MEMBER
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They seem to have rewritten history on Whitlam as a great leader of this country. I can only remember the time as the hardships and despair he brought to us.
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6th May 2019, 09:13 AM #79regards from Alberta, Canada
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6th May 2019, 09:29 AM #80
Whitlam got elected, then spent the accumulated budget surplus of 30+ years of responsible financial management of the economy.
Not satisfied with that they then tried to borrow more money to squander in what became known as the Khemlani Affair.I'm doing my May Challenge - I may or may not give a #*c&
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6th May 2019, 09:55 AM #81
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6th May 2019, 10:13 AM #82.
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6th May 2019, 01:14 PM #83
I suggested some time back that the best way to respond to radical animal rights activists invading private property would be to invest in substantial quantities of australian meat products and consume them with smug delight in the company of family and friends.
Australians vote for staibility above all else. In 76 Fraser was the most hated man in australia but he didn't just win that election it was one of the biggest landslides in our federal history. The people could put up with Whitlam's communist inclinations, but not the utter chaos his government brought. He literally couldn't... manage a business transaction with a lady of the night.
What amuses me more is the left's relentless attempts to reinvent the Hawke years. He led the most radical right wing government in our history and their fanatical embrace of economic rationalism tore our society apart. Poverty and extreme wealth both doubled between 1984 and 1994 (BOS). Real wages went backwards, the unions amalgamated and became less representative and a small group of "entrepreneurs" were let loose on us to pillage the country leaving the middle and working class to pay the bill when the music stopped.
Perception is a remarkable thing. I know intelligent and articulate people who actually believe labor is the friend to the working class and protector of the vulnerable and others who actually believe the coalition are better economic managers. If you account their track records, what they have done rather than what they claim, there isn't a cigarette papers width between them.
South park summed it up best, but it's too rude to type here...I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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6th May 2019, 01:56 PM #84
Hawke taking his party so far to the right is what we have to blame for the Greens getting any traction at all in the political sphere.
In the Hawke era we had the choice of two Liberal parties and no Labor party. The true "Lefties" who did not follow Hawke's Labor to the right on the back of Bob's "charisma" jumped ship and got behind the Greens.I'm doing my May Challenge - I may or may not give a #*c&
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6th May 2019, 06:00 PM #85So since I was 18 I've always voted independent or minor party.
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6th May 2019, 06:06 PM #86
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I'm doing my May Challenge - I may or may not give a #*c&
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6th May 2019, 06:43 PM #87
Now that's unfair Doug. The Skipper didn't wear glasses and Gilligan wasn't a wingnut.
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