Try to think of something else Johnnie

By: Julius Timmerman (Registered ) on 16-10-2007 07:54

The election campaigning is off to a bad start with an early round of hip-pocket fillings. Instead of having money thrown at us just like it was at the last election, I'd like to see the blinkers taken off and some offers made about job security, family life, standard of living, good quality education and child-care, a leading place in the scientific world, a fair multilateral trading environment, the safe future of the environment of this country, sustainable new technology, notions of peace-making not war-mongering, compassion for the underprivileged, the wellbeing of our indigenous and older people, hospitals that belong to the 21st century and a society that works, creates and plays together, not the dog eat dog one that's been fostered over the last ten years or so. 
Life isn't just about money, economics and fear. If Workchoices were abolished, most people would be in the same place as they would be under the Libs promised tax cuts, and all that money would still be there to spend on the above. A cashed up government has a multitude of opportunities at its disposal to bring Australia into the 21st century and meet its challenges and dangers. How boring that the Libs can only think of tax cuts. Or kicking the old union can around. Next.

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