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Is Howard’s ‘broad church’ an invitation for Karl Marx to join the Liberal Party? : Comments

By David Pellowe, published 7/9/2020

Christopher Pyne recently penned an opinion piece enthusiastically embracing Joe Biden as the great white hope of the world, and denouncing Donald Trump.

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SteeleRedux, They ain't record temperatures, and the megafires are a consequence of unprecedented accumulation of three dimensionally continuous fuels that support firestorms and embershowers in extreme weather which happened long before the the industrial revolution, but never fuelled megafires until after aboriginal burning was disrupted.
Posted by Little, Monday, 7 September 2020 8:33:32 PM
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Why do people still think Howard was a conservative? A totalitarian statist yes, but a conservative he absolutely wasn't. Don't be fooled by the prim and proper persona. Look at the deeds.

A lot of the problems we have today are a direct result of changes made by the Howard government and the precedents it set.
It was a radical government. It sought to change the nature of the country and succeeded.
It initiated probably the greatest expansion of government the countries ever had.

It inverted onus and imposed state control over private property. It instigated a trend toward extremely prescriptive laws that heavily punish the slightest oversight for things that have nothing to do with actual harm.
It placed "environment" over people.
It tipped the pace upside down.

The situation today isn't deviation from the like of the Howard government. It's the direct result.
Posted by jamo, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 10:23:38 AM
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