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By spending this largesse on everything other than root-and-branch tax reform, both sides of politics are jeopardising our future prosperity.
Hmmm, ever heard of infrastructure? Long word that, have to sound it out slowly in-fra-struc-ture. It means spending money on schools, hospitals, transport, communications and all of those things that don't give a short term profit but do provide long term social stability and a platform for future prosperity.
encourage ordinary Australians to work harder and earn more
The Australians that do have jobs are working pretty damn hard already. You only have to listen to the contents of the morning meatwagon as it pulls into North Sydney station coughing, sniffing shuffling feet -- but still going to bloody work.
Australia is not a more divided nation than before Mr Howard came to office.
This one speaks for itself.
On national security, Mr Latham has talked about the importance of the US alliance, and come nowhere close to repeating his earlier attacks on President George W. Bush. But his utterly false dichotomy between securing Australia's borders and acting to defeat terror at its source, which is what we are about in Iraq, shows he still has much to learn about the mainsprings of the US alliance: our shared commitment to values of freedom, democracy and human rights.
Even the Australian can't quite find the stength to put "George Bush" in the same sentence as "human rights", they tried as hard as they could but it ended up falling short by a nose.
As for going to Iraq to stop terror at its source, I thought we went to Afganistan to stop terror at its source and we went to Iraq to stop the WMDs. Funny how the story changes each time it gets told. Maybe Peter Garret should jump up in parliament and start singing "Short Memory", presuming he doesn't get beaten by a Greens candidate.
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