Australia: New Labor Prime minister, Elected

[evgwheel]

Saturday 24-11-2007 Australia voted for a change of Government after the Liberals dominated the scene for 11.5 years.

The following are my opinions only:
Although the new Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) values our friendship with America, We will no longer be a puppet of Bush’s wishes.
Americans have a very similar way of life as we do downunder But there are differences. With the new labor government, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, but the difference will slow down.
We will not just go into a war in a far away place for made up (questionable) reasons. We may believe soon that all Islamic people aren’t terrorist. Our security and interest will be localized to our region.
The new Prime Minister speaks fluent Mandarin (he is a white Australian) and that should help in China. We export coal and iron ore in fast quantities to China and therefore our economy is in great shape.
We will rectify Koyota and global warming is the second most important issue on the agenda. First on the agenda is the remove laws that workers were not as important as business profit (a compromise will be reach with new laws, even the business lobby agrees).
Education will be a winner with every student to have a laptop and fast broadband within 3 years.
There is much more, but the main points are Profit is very important, but workers and family life is just as important, our own regions is more important then interfering with far away countries for political and power/money gains.
All in all, we are getting a little bit more human friendly.
We may be a big country, island and continent, but only have a population of 21 million
For more info: http://www.abc.net.au/news/

[Fletcher]

See, Socialisms not to bad when it's built on the back of a strong mining industry to pay for its largesse - oh, & don't feel to bad about all that coal to China [they open 2 new coal fired plants every week], once you ratify the Kyoto protocol you'll still be able to give lip service & fund research into clean air from the taxes it collects off those big & small family businesses devoid of any social conscience or humanity, those leaches ripping off the tax payer & not sharing the unholy profits with the workers [oh, that's right, they get pay rises & bonuses for performance & don't share in any risk, unless they are a shareholder] ;)

Last one out of Iraq turns out the lights !

A new era for Australia to flex its economic might & go it alone without asking uncle Sam first - will be interesting 'who dey gonna call' when the 220 million Indonesians decide their country's getting a bit crowded & yours is empty & only a short boat trip away - they gotta sail past you before getting to us, we gonna call you ;)

[evgwheel]

Fletcher
Your share portfolio sounds like it is a lot bigger then mine.
And anyway there won’t be any room in Australia for anyone soon; Kiwi’s are filling this place up fast (they are very welcome)
EVG

[Fletcher]

Don't own a single share EVG .. 40,000 kiwi's heading to your lucky country every year, out of 4.25 million [enough to fill a stadium] - that's because we've got a socialist government [well, taxation heathens aka the Labour Party] which hopefully will be out 'tit for tat' comparable with your situation in next years election :)

Seriously, I think it will be a new era for you guys & Rudd looks good - can't help feeling Iraq was Howard's achilles heal this time around.

[DrWhat]

Interesting points. Firstly I like Rudd and a change in political direction had been overdue.

True we may be ratifying Kyoto but all that coal we export needs some great furnace to burn in and China is that furnace which will keep increasing greenhouse gases and.... how unexpected that all that pollution etc will affect Australia and NZ too, and all the world. But hey, WE'RE not burning all that coal. They are!! It's not OUR fault.
But what else is a country to do except make money, feed the demand. Isn't that democracy. For example: some country needs weapons, the demand is there. Prosperous countries say "hey, it may as well be us supplying them"!. Moral issues go out the door when it comes to Supply and Demand.
Guys, get those damn wheels working, and get moving. The world needs your inventive skills to be fruitful.
There I had my little say...

[Fletcher]

LOL - don't take anything I say to seriously, just a little tongue in cheek ;)