THE DONKEY VOTE

Just one sleep until the first and as Howard would want ONLY debate between Kevin Rudd and John Howard. Once again I have to say it is pathetically weak that Howard will only agree to one debate, one week into a six week campaign. But I am used to seeing underwhelming and self supporting bullshit come from Howard.

I was very pleased with Labor’s tax package, especially the nearly $3 billion going to education and $400 million to cutting hospital waiting lists. Sure I would have put more but it also neutralises the election bribe Howard have released. It was always Labor policy to cut taxs. But Labor successfully straddles both tax cuts and investment in education and hospitals. And it has proved a winner in the community.

Labor needs to focus more on education and hospitals over the next five weeks.

Without a doubt Australian working families will be better off with a Labor Federal Government!

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How about Yak. I find myself falling asleep reading his posts, especially because it never is anything I haven’t heard from Howard or Costello during the days press conferences and media QNAs. That is the problem with conservative zealots, they just parrot their leaders and the noise is getting deafening lately as they are getting more and more desperate.

Yak loves to say that our site visitors spiked when he posted. But he didn’t look at it probably. They were at near record highs on Friday, but when Yak posted today the arse fell out of the stats and they were well under half what they were on Friday!

So take that Yak. No one likes you and your conservative politics. I am still willing to endorse your defection to our side if you will accept my offer over the next couple of weeks.

Brad: Your thoughts betray you, Yak. I feel the good in you, the conflict.

(Another dirty secret is that sure on news.com.au’s vote-a-matic he scored Liberal first, but it was Labor second!)

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AUSTRALIA IN DIGITAL STONE AGE!

The Coalition has let Australia fall so terribly behind in technology we are an absolute international job. How is Australia supposed to compete on the new digital world marketplace, encourage business and investment in Australia and stop the brain drain over seas?

The Coalition has FAILED to position Australia not even as a world leader, but to even put is in the competition.

I find this topic incredibly personal because I live in a Brisbane metropolitian broadband black spot. I have to ####ing use dial up! It is insulting.

I’ve had to end my glorious battlefield 1942 career…I used to be in the Top 2% in the world….and my World of Warcraft character never saw Level 38….jesus christ….he was only Level 37! I can’t even do cool things like look at youtube and have a myspace….. this crisis is ruining Australia and hurts my feelings and cuts down my options for recreational activities.

All I can do now is play Starcraft which is a ten year old computer game! I have sunken to reading books! This is supposed to be the 21st Century!

This is where 11 years of Coalition government has gotten Australia. Enough is enough!

Australia need real leadership! Brad needs broadband.

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I had a great night last night working with a fellow Labor Party supporter, we had a great time talking about politics and how great Labor is. It’s great to be around people who have open minds and not be surrounded by people like Yak and Sheldon. I think next time I see my friend I will give him a Kevin07 t-shirt and a YourRightsAtWork bumper sticker.

He raised an interesting point. His girlfriend is on an AWA and he was telling me the conditions including stripping all penalties and offering a pathetic wage that isn’t even anywhere near competitive with likewise work coupled with a stream of unrealistic demands that basically translate into them owning you. She works night work, has a few part time jobs and you could say she is one of these battler types of workers that I worry about so much. It will be sad to see her other employer’s trying to put her on AWAs as well, then they will start stepping on each other’s toes. I will try and get a copy of this AWA. It is yet another example I have encountered with people loosing out on AWAs. I should interview them and make my own anti Workchoices ads and put them on YouTube, infact maybe the ACTU should have done that as one of their campaigns.

What worries me is the absolute gold rush to rip off workers by thieving employer’s that will occur if Australia is stupid enough to let the Coalition back in office.

Labor need to make sure the election focuses on Industrial Relations and not let the Coalition take focus on that.

IR+ENVIRONMENT+EDUCATION+HOSPITALS=SECRET TO LABOR LANDSLIDE.

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All good things come to an end and it’s a shame that this week has had to.

It has been fantastic without Sheldon. Great fun and games. It is just a shame he has to come back tomorrow. Then I will have to put up with Coalition propaganda in stereo between this clown and that other one Yak…

Maybe I need to get a new Labor ally on this site. But I believe in a fair fight, 1 on 1 I don’t believe in teaming up and forming Coalitions.

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Funny to see John Howard at the Apple Festival in Electorate of Beeninalong. Which just happens to be Yak’s electorate! It turned into a bit of a political turf war with Labor candidate also attending armed with balloons and dozens of supporters. Howard was also heckled by countless protestors, unionists, anti WorkChoices and anti war.

The hightlight of the day was Mr Unco Howard trying to throw up an apple a foot in the air and trying to catch it in a feeble attempt to look cool and dropping it. Hahaha. He then did a speech….

 

“It’s a remarkable, Mr Speaker - ‘Mr Speaker!’ There you go, I get into these bad habits!” he said. 

Howard has lost the plot!

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Well with exception to Mr Howard being 25 basis points off the official interest rate earlier this week (notice no one said anything about Mr Rudd being well off the average wage in the same interview), it has been a good first week for the Liberals with the party crawling back to being only 6% behind the Labor party in the Neilsen poll, and a very encouraging 2% behind Labor in the Galaxy poll.The very appealing $34 billion dollars worth of tax cuts, kicked off a pro-Liberal week, with the policy being so good that the Labor party came out and copied 91.5% of it. Now they say in life the biggest complement you can ever receive is imitation, and well between the housing affordability policy, the Tasmanian health and now the tax plan, it wouldn’t be surprising to see whiteout over where the Liberal logo should be at the front of the plan, and Labor scribbled on underneath considering how similar the copies have been.As Sheldon said in one of his earlier posts, Kevin Rudd’s Labor party is becoming more and more like a diet-version of the Liberals and they don’t seem to be providing any point of difference except for WorkChoices. You would think if they feel Australia is in that much need of new leadership that hey would have hundreds if not thousands of new different policies to ‘fix’ our nation. Getting back to the WorkChoices scenario, it’s no real surprise that Labor party has always had a go at this. Even if Mr Rudd agreed with the concept, the fact his party is dominated by current and former ACTU executives, in fact over 70% of them are still affiliated and involved in the organisation, they are naturally not going to be too keen on anything that weakens the positions of Unions.Now don’t get me wrong, Unions have a place in

Australia and in the past have been fundamental to building the type of working lifestyle we enjoy today in this country, but given too much power they can be just as detrimental as an employer with too much power. How can you seriously expect a political party that is in bed with the Unions to provide fair working conditions for everyone when it has a clear conflict of interest to also help grow ACTU numbers? It does make you think, is it really Mr Rudd running Labor, or is he just a puppet for Sharan Burrow and Jeff Lawrence?

Anyway, to finish on a lighter note, and something a bit pro-labor, at least Mr Rudd can interview himself well:
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