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'It's the economy, stupid'. Or is it? : Comments
By Tim Grau, published 19/6/2007The economic surge and Labor's poll surge are causing considerable consternation as to their implications.
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Hawke and Keating spent most of the '80's fiercely opposed to privatisation; then turned around and sold QANTAS and the CBA. Go figure.
Keatings IR reforms went beyond Liberal Party policy of the times.
Howard and the Libs supported the floating of the dollar(I can't remember whether the Libs. were there first or not).
Keating went further and faster than Howard would ever have done in the '80's; and we owe him for Super and for a courageous response to Mabo. We owe him for the makeover he gave the ALP, dragging it out of pit as he did.
Howard, for all his prevarication and dissembling is still recognisably the same man as he was in the early '80's. The ALP today is light years from the party it was in the early '80's.
A question from the dis-illusioned to the still 'rusted-on'- how does it feel to blindly(or not blindly) champion, on behalf of the ALP, policies that were proudly Liberal policies 5, 10, or 20 years ago?