Australian Federal Election

[ShaiGar]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:WHOOO HOOOOO! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Kevin Rudd won. The Evil Emperor is Dead. He even lost his seat.

Sorry for the emotional outburst, I am happy.

[LSB]

Howard was a worthless bag of air, I'm glad for you.

However, I don't think this Rudd fellow is going to be much of an improvement. At least you'll be out of the mess in Iraq, if not anything else.

[elsdfr]

Exciting stuff huh?

Personally wasn't bothered either way. I figure the finances are in good enough shape to stand a good ol' Labor style rape and pillage so why not? Plus Howard is just getting older and seemingly shiftier. I sometimes wonder what real effect his IR changes will have on people when things aren't booming resource wise.

I think Rudd will probably turn out to be a spineless jelly fish though. He doesn't instill much confidence in me.

Oh and Rudds side kick Jillian Gillard.. not sure what role she will take up next term but man I am not looking forward to hearing her talk. That dull monotone voice and expressionless face make me think bad thoughts... she really needs to buy herself some charisma.. or isn't that allowed in Socialist Australia? lol.

[qwerty]

At the end of the day I see this as a good development. I've always voted for my local representative (as opposed to voting in terms of a party preferred system) and as such when there is an independent candidate like Brain Anderson I'll favor them (because you know they generally do represent their electorate).

But on the topic of Kevin Rudd, the one thing I remember Laurie Oaks (a political commentator for those of you who don't know) saying during the coverage of Kevin Rudd's challenge for the leadership of the opposition: "Kevin Rudd is the sort of man who wouldn't run if he wasn't certain he couldn't win". I heard that something like a year ago and it has resonated with me since.

Politically I don't think there will be any major upsets, he won't roll back work choices completely and he won't pull troops out of Afghanistan immediately. There will be the typical Labor policies of increased spending on public infrastructure(which given the liberals 10 year stay in parliament isn't necessarily a bad thing).

Lets just hope he doesn't do anything stupid like Bob Hawk or Paul Keating.

[ShaiGar]

You mean stupid like Paul Keating introducing Superannuation so that the australian economy has a few more billion to invest?

[qwerty]

As Federal Treasurer he introduced a number of reforms including de-regulation of the banking industry and floating the dollar. He also likened Australia to a Banana Republic and gave us the recession 'we had to have'. He apologised for the recession when addressing students at the University of NSW in March, 1999, in effect admitting one of the many mistakes of his Labor goverment.
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