New Australian Government

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Unless the caretaker government can work a miracle there will be a new Liberal National Coalition Australian government after the Saturday 7 September election.

Psephologist Malcolm Mackerras is an Australian academic who has for decades prepared an electoral pendulum that shows the swings by seat and overall swing needed to change a government, as late as June 2013 he predicted that the present government would lose office by a considerable number of seats regardless of who its leader was, Gillard or Rudd.

More recently after Rudd replaced Gillard and the opinion polls improved in favour of the government Mackerras decided to sit on the fence and said that the election could swing either way. However, after a couple of weeks poll improvement that trend stalled and is now sliding backwards. And Rudd is making many mistakes and errors of judgement, and is looking desperate while the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, is looking prime ministerial and confident.

Australia cannot afford another three years of socialism.

[Swampy]

Labor has gone into attack ads, in a desperate attempt to salvage the situation. And that's going to backfire.

[Deleted]

They did the same in desperation in state elections in recent times and backfire it certainly did, noting the Australians are in the majority fed up with socialists

[hornet32]

Australia would do itself well if they just cleaned the slate and start out all over again , the people of OZ have found out what doesn't work now all they need to is apply themselves to what does work .

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I think most Australians now reflect on the very good financial and economic management the Coalition provided 1996-2007 when they retired a large Labor government debt within 10 years, ran most budgets into surplus, created new funds invested, got unemployment down to 4%, and despite a booming economy and related inflationary pressures kept inflation under 5% at worst and Australian's standard of living increased markedly.

And we are angry that Labor inherited a debt free position with a $22 Billion budget surplus, one of the highest on record here, and in 6 years have run budgets in deficit every year despite record high revenue from the mining boom, have borrowed over $300 Billion which is the highest debt level ever (1996 $96 Billion debt), cost of living has increased quite a lot, unemployment 5.6% and rising, with dysfunctional, chaotic, deceitful government of many leadership and cabinet minister changes coupled to what the government refers to as a patchwork economy.

Today the CEO of Bluescope Steel said that Australia has been suffering a recession for some time which has been hidden by the mining boom and related business activity. I agree. The CEO of one of the nations largest road transport firms, Fox Transport, made a similar claim last year pointng to decreased business activity for road transport generally.

I still cannot accept how the union movement hijacked the Australian Labor Party and took control of it, how the Party joined hands with the further left socialist Australian Green Party, and together they undermined national prosperity. On the surface, noting that most developed nations are doing it tough, Australia is still doing well however nowehere near as well as we had the potential for in 2007.

Federal governments here from 1985 to 2006 had modernised the economy ahead of the global position and taken various steps to ensure that we were competitive in the global economy, and we were. Labor undermined that position including replacing new industrial relations laws with old laws from the 1970s/1980s that had been a handicap for business. Add green and red tape roadblocks and Australia is now considered to be a sovereign risk by foreign investors who are investing in nations that we compete with. Particularly in the mining sector but not only there.

The only conclusion I can come to is international socialism via their UN agendas, Agenda 21 for example, new world order too, a world with no borders controlled by a UN based world government, the Fabian Socialist dream. There is plenty of evidence to back this conclusion. In other words weaken the strong economies and gradually take them over.

[hornet32]

What is the difference between OZ politics and paint drying , drying paint is an action .