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Howard is a leader not a Politician

By: NickStanton (Registered ) on 14-10-2007 02:29

It never ceases to amaze me that people continually label John Howard as a poll-driven politician who makes decisions based on the prospects for the next election. 
IR-reform, GST, VSU, Staying the course in Iraq, I could name 100 government actions which whether you agree with them or not, cannot be viewed as anything other than a PM doing what he believes strongly (rightly and wrongly) to be the right thing for Australia. Anybody who calls him a liar, a dirty-trickster and any of the other names i have heard is being grossly unfair to a man who has devoted his life to his country.  
If you disagree with his politics, and the decisions he has made and will make (because i think it has always been clear where he stands and what we can expect from him), fine, don't vote for him. If you seriously believe however, that he has not spent the last decade implimenting policy which aligns with his vision for the country, and which he believes strongly in, then I'm afraid you are suffering from a clear lack of perspective.

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Back to the future

By: Lorraine (Registered ) on 14-10-2007 04:29

I tend to agree with much of what Joseph27 has to say. It worries me that there has been a lack of vision or long term planning for this country over the past 11 years. Budgets in surplus are not always the be all and end all if we allow infrastructure to deteriorate or be non-existent, if we allow funding for education, research and development to be reduced in real terms, if we allow our health systems to become run down and ineffective, if we allow the environment to be destroyed, if we lose compassion for those less fortunate in our society etc.  
The government has shown itself to be completely arrogant in spending such huge amounts of tax payers money on advertising campaigns when we have such abject poverty amongst our aborignal communities, numbers of homeless on our streets, pensioners without dental care, sparse facilites for respite for carers of the mentally ill let alone clinical care for sufferers, lack of specialised services for children with autism and other forms of learning difficulties in rural areas, to name a few. However, if anyone dares to speak up they are labelled as "pathetic" by the prime minister. This is the "leader" of our democracy. I thought in healthy democracies the people were encouraged to speak out on any issue that effects them.  
I hope Kevin Rudd can step up and articulate a better vision for this country that is far more inclusive, that encourages our young to be involved in helping us solve some of the huge problems facing the country and the planet and helps us regain our place on the world stage as independent thinkers.

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