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Labor's death agonies : Comments
By John Passant, published 4/8/2010The long term left wing shift to the Greens is not an aberration but a consequence of the ALP’s abandonment of the pretence of leftism.
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In 2007 right-wing ALP candidates made much of the Seven Vultures that were feeding on the carcass of the Howard government as it flailed around shifting further and further to the right in its drive to populism with business and religious groups and with those who listen only to small sound bites from the mainstream media.
Those Seven Vultures of 2007 were: the denial of climate change; touting of the war in Iraq; WorkChoices; policy failure on education spending; poor vision of infrastructure; destruction of research and development; and refugees with the Pacific Solution.
Three years later and we still have Seven Vultures, but they are now feeding on the corpses of the Rudd government and the Gillard government as it lurches further and further to the far right with the same populism groups and intentions.
The only difference this time is the make up of the Seven Vultures has changed to: the homes insulation scheme; the permanently postponed energy scheme; the war in Afghanistan; the continuation of the ABCC and WorkChoices Lite; the mining industry deciding who will be Prime Minister in order to expand uranium mining; the school hall/library construction scheme; and refugees with the East Timor Solution.
I am sure this is not what government is supposed to be about: government by big business, hidden bureaucrats, vested interests and exploitative capitalism.