Now do not use my post as evidence Labor is wrong.
It could have been 20 posts and every one about the failures of your team.
Abbott putting the fool from the Nats in finance, I do not always tell the truth Abbott the Ute gate stupidity.
Why bother?
looking forward to next weekend have dumped vote counting, I will be here at home watching every seat, may say Gday here too.

I know that the liberal party attacks the labor for the woes and Labor attacks the liberal for the same reason, but if the members of the liberal party in power would look up the history of their champion, they would find that in his years from 1944 to 1966, Australia climbed out of the depression of the '30's, by putting the top tax up to 66.6%, and it flourished for 20 years. Since then, Either John Gordon or William McMahon started the downhill roll by lowering the top tax, and it has been going downhill ever since - with the economy. Interesting, is that in the failurers in the economy, excepting for the pig farm owner, all the other PM's and treasurers have been lawyers, and Julia and Wayne Swan, are both lawyers, so don't expect any economic increase there either, and not from the liberal party either, unless they take notice of Robert Menzies, and increase the top tax back to that 66.6%, and do similatr with the corporate tax, and ban export mining.

merv09,
A top rate of 66.6% seems a little harsh, particularly considering the broad economic changes that have occurred both domestically and internationally since that time. We have become so overwhelmed by our own greed and selfishness that any suggestion that something be done that will have long term effects for the nation but might require a bit of sacrifice by the wealthy is met with the usual paranoid socialist crap from people like Shadow Minister.

If you consider it honestly Menzies makes Julia look like a conservative, as all politics in this country has become. The Greens offer the only left position and they are grilled for it. Western Sydney the once great strong hold of working class Australia only needed a few dollars dangled in their faces to become a conservative nursery.

Individual,
Howard did little for unemployment as the current government has done little. The mining sector boom is where employment has been generated causing labour shortages allowing for low unemployment numbers. The interesting part for me is that despite the current world economic position and the changes that labor made to industrial relations the jobs being created are full time as apposed to Howards part time work choice.

Don't worry Belly. SM is just adding to the current attack style of political campaigning.

It is just a distraction from the lack of a coherent Liberal economic policy and a bungle over policy costings as revealed by the recent 'leak'.

I've just looked at this thread and I think a couple of you are being a bit hard on SM. There's an election on, and I would have thought that those who support various parties would be spruiking their virtues. No shame to him that he is spruiking his.

Also went to the trouble of checking the unemployment rate. You might be interested in looking at this graph. http://www.ambitgambit.com/?attachment_id=4014

Shows that from 2003 on the Howard government had unemployment rates that were as low, or lower, than the current ones. Also shows that Howard inherited a rate of around 9% from the Keating government.

The figures are from the ABS.

For the record I think that Julia Gillard's role in rolling the employment laws back to a model which predates the Hawke and Keating governments is a retrograde step and will do more damage than anything else the current government has done. The graph shows you the results of inflexible labour markets when you look at the earlier years.

Australia's economy, will sink further with the policies that have been forced into the system by the use of the mining companies - as a spoilt child, using one parent against the other, with neither knowing or seeming to care what the prospects are going to be. When the recession keeps looming in the background, the unemployment will keep rising, and it would be worse now if some of the companies involved had not introduced 2 and 3 day work to keep the employment as good as they can. They have not been getting any help at all from either the Howard or the Gillard Government, I think that if some of the those on part time work were put full time, and the others were put off, the unemployment rate would be more like 10% or more, but I don't think that the Liberal party have a plan to improve it. They don't show any improvement in their policies, if they have one.