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Does the ALP have a future? : Comments
By Syd Hickman, published 28/1/2016Only two good things have happened to the ALP in the last twenty years; Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Both fizzled. Could another saviour appear?
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It needs to draw from a far wider base and real world experience.
As far a I can see, fee setting doctors and lawyers have yet to genuinely compete for business, which would then allow the cream to rise to the top, and the dross to do what they've invariably done and head for a career in politics?
Where they are adept in blocking real reform/arguing the no case, or head for the loony toon greens.
Try to engage your average and usually dismissive and conservative doctor on a conversion around tax reform; and the usual answer will likely be, Canberra is swimming in tax?
And most selectively deaf lawyers can't see beyond the thousands the see as their share of your entitlement, and from whatever source, regardless of the wealth or patent penury of the client?
With one or two notable exceptions, where say settling out of court has resulted in a superior outcome for the client and a smaller fee for the practise?
Just not the kind of, I believe, inherently moral or listening, imaginative people we need in the people's parliament?
Rhrosty.