When Stephen Conroy made that comment it also reminded me on the standard catch-cry for every election; education & families. Neither has made any positive progress whatsoever. So far as the economy goes, there are plain & simply too many people sponging off either other people or by way of being in utterly unproductive employment which only taxpayers can for. No private enterprise would tolerate an employee doing nothing for years on end. We need to create jobs for the unemployable which in turn will give them the incentive to improve themselves. We could start off with manual labour tasks instead of paying good money for nothing but growing more obese by the day. A National Service would be a great kick-off for that. Remember people should work their way up not start at the top. Another insanity are CEO pays for Telstra, the Banks & other institutions which hold the public at ransom with their monopoly services. In my area Qantas is given a monopoly by the local Council?Government & it's mainly the Public Servants who fly at taxpayers expense. The list of misuse, incompetence & corruption is just about endless.
Julia Gillard's Government will fix all that so not all's lost yet.

Well said Individual,
Totally agree with you.
NSB