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Kevin's Choice? - a better Howard or a worse Blair : Comments
By Reg Little, published 1/11/2007Will Rudd prove as ineffective as Blair in managing and mitigating the pressures within the Anglo-American world?
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But I suspect that since the Australian electorate seems to be strongly leaning towards a left of center government that Australia, under Rudd, with strong labor control will become much more transfixed on internal issues and mandates as most other leftist governments in the world.
This will probably mean resurrecting old tariffs and other impediments to trade as well as significantly improving the trade union control over the Australian workplace which will lead to a much diminished place in the world debates on anything meaningful - including Kyoto II. After all, how much attention is given Venezuela on the world stage?
But the end result may be what the ALP is after: a significantly reduced value of the Australian dollar which means imports are much more expensive. But, on the bright side, if our dollar becomes cheap enough major international firms will come here to have us make their sneakers thus saving, or even growing our manufacturing base.