Tapp, you write with the bitchy voice of a Qantas flight attendant. Now calm down, let the speed out of your system, we are not talking about the bogey man, pedophiles, child molesters, the Lock Ness Monster, Vampires or even shape shifters.

Admittedly, my posting was colourful too but I'm sure even the writers got a laugh at that. When I see fake dribble from those not as qualified as they claim to be, my Doc Martens come out.

The States have been starved for 13 years of bad luck from cutbacks in Federal distribution of funding from the Howard Government. As the distribution gets chipped down more and more, of course it is difficult for the States to function.

You would think that the highest taxing Government in Australian History, the Howard Government, with the wide variety of levies, GST, fuel taxes, departure taxes, arrival taxes, student fees, so many lines of revenue, that they would distribute more to the States.

Do they? No.

They spend it on the "war against terror" in Iraq. The war we had to have.

They spend it on business subsidies.

They spend money on religious organizations, and this is not even constitutional.

The States get bugger all. That is a problem. A deliberate problem. A political strategy of nasty sabotage.

So will the States run better under Rudd? Politically, he has to look after the States. They are in the same party. Our economy may even boom like New Labour in the UK.

OK Tapp again your rambling gos far too far, having seen a post that highlights one persons pain about dreadful child rape you pounce on it.
Like the poster who has suffered so very much you place the blame on Labor, in the posters case both sides.
Is it not clear many layers of government exist between this dreadful crime and any federal government?
Tapp you know zero about politics, your pain and maybe related symptoms sees you lurch into politics for self interest, not better government.
You bleat like a child wanting a lolly In a toy shop, all this I can take.
But your personal insults are out there.
Tapp one of us knows nothing of the subject I challenge you to match my on the record forecast of your results in the election in the seat you are going to fail so very badly to make an impact in.
The fact Rudd is not Howard is the reason he will win.
Saintfletcher it truth, do not just think of your personal wants, could other than a conservative ALP leader bring enough votes to the party to avoid another landslide victory to the conservatives?

We now have in Canberra a child centre at Parliament House for parliamentarians. I reckon some would have preferred a Strip Club.:-)

Mind you the reason given for turning the Non-members Bar into a child care did raise my eyebrows and not a little chuckle.

Apparently it is designed to encourage younger women to join the ranks of Parliamentarians.

Given the voyeristic inclination of one of our older male members ... well ... you know

Ah! Keith; I do know. Would that the male members older or otherwise remained voyeuristic.

We might not need the child care centre.

As for the: "you know" (nudge,nudge,wink,wink). THE HORROR OF IT ALL!!
I collapsed under the strain of such appalling news.

If the economy was so strong then why is something as external as the U.S mortage market creating such destruction of the Australian economy. Surely if Howard and Costello were competant economic managers then American woes would have no impact on Australians at all.

It seems the coalitions entire economic credibility has thrown overboard by American mortage brokers.

Ginx ... so sorry to see you have no sense of the ridiculous.

I mean here we have another 'great' labor leader but this one, who espouses family and christian values, allows himself to get pissed, fall into bad company and become involved in an activity that condones and encourages the acceptance of the degradation and mistreatment of young women...

And that's not even mentioning the host of other sexist insults, to all women, such behaviour suggests.

The bloke is a fake and his behaviour shows it.

West

When the recession that is building in the US eventually reaches us, it hasn't yet, we are as well placed to ride it out as we possibly could be. Our economy will suffer a drop in exports but the imports will also fall, employment will fall, interest rates will fall as will housing prices but house affordability will improve and people in too much debt will be the only ones to really suffer.

Now we know what Howard and Costello will do but what will Rudd and his fellow socialists do?