Were the cheap "policies" - like Teach Kids Computer Coding and lately Make Half Cars Electric within a decade or so, not clues enough ? The ALP model of being a Mass Party where great ideas percolate up from its huge membership - is simply just a fantasy, like restoring mass Union memberships ? New "leader" Elbo (the Engineer) can only publicly urge more people to "join" the Party. Have YOU tried to "join" the ALP - its like trying to send the ABC some ideas by email, very bureaucratic. It seems you have to be a union member just to get to fill out their application form
We pointed out ages ago the folly of rolling out middle class benefit cuts before the election - like cutting back Negative Gearing and "retirement" superannuation rorts, used for their kids estate planning. A great use of taxpayers money huh, as political guru Johnny Coward actually spruiked during the election campaign. So what sort of lies did the Coalition and their backers use to fight these reasonable cutback's effecting only thousands of people - why "exposing" a supposed ALP "plan" to reintroduce Def taxes. This sort of crap was all over WeChat and various internet sewer pipes. Certainly a lot of Australian Chinese were sucked in by this non-media propaganda.
On the other hand, the NSW Gladdy Govt shucked off its non-delivery of its really stupid rail'n'road privatised "infrastructure" to cream in its re-election. Better to delay and cost overrun really unsuitable rail projects - then bring them on after the election, with four years to the next election for people to "get used to them". A tram that destroys the long term main street shopping precincts and rare tree lined Café strips of Sydney city and Parramatta plus yet another gauge of rail for the driverless trams to takeover the heavy rail two storey carriage network - will be regretted fordecades to come.
Meanwhile, middle-class commuter transport of gold plated tollway express roads and more International Airports are rolled out - though Very Fast Rail land purchases are only promised by Elbo just a week before the 2019 Federal Election. We urged the ALP to make VFR their key promise - but they only whipped it out at the last moment when the fake Opinion "Polls" had convinced them they were going to win the election, big time. In other words, the ALP can no longer rely on its shrinking membership and the increasingly boutique (and feminised) Unions as a brain- trust.
Its National Conferences should open up wider to innovative thinking in the community - such as from Universities and Think Tanks (and dare we say it community based organisations like ours), to refine its policy ideas. Certainly the Greens and Get-up are just as limited in their thinking as the Union movement. For instance, who was the genius in the ALP who thought a Welfare Inquiry, without flagging a decent dole and Austudy rise - was a good idea. Surely a wider Inquiry including Middle Class Welfare is needed.
Certainly the ALP Right is now pushing the idea of Wealth Creation (ie the growth mantra) over handouts to everybody - but surely there would be more support for cutting back on Capital Gains/investment house portfolio Gearing/super rorts, if people saw those savings going to welfare and job creation for the long term jobless. The ALP however has a least come up with some policy ideas that it can try and repackage - once the Mousy Govt gets really nasty with harder economics and gets kicked out. The Coalition still bluster about the Drudd Govt flawed but effective stimulus package spending. Any mass unemployment returning with a predicted Recession - will have Mousy Govt pushing the jobless off to Gilligan's Island or worse
Certainly the ALP needs to look at its supposed its Identity Socialism madness - where the likes of Tanny, ex ALP Deputy, was taking about "toxic men". Let's hope we won't see anymore the DV TV ad with the guy standing over wife - suddenly turning into a little boy. A lot that sick toxic Ad must be doing to the booming 13 pubescent male suicyid rate. Looks like the ALP has already kicked the Revenge Feminist 50% leadership into the Senate loony bin - usually mainly a retirement home for ex union officials and other "representatives" of no-one in particular. Maybe we'll hear less rubbish about how ALL "survivors" must be believe, since If that's the case - the Courts will truly be operating a reverse Inquisition.
The recent Caitin case showed how a woman lied about being sexually assaulted by a Good Samaritan middle-age guy who came to her rescue to fix her car. CCTV footage exposed her lies. The guy had been put in jail, lost his wife and suffered greatly. He wants to sue her for One Million dollars. We know your pain mate - false sexual claims are routinely made against human rights activists, such as Martin Luther King and some rather sub judice cases that will be fully reported some day.
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