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'The monk, Bernardi, religion has plenty to answer for. The greatest con this world has ever seen. '

might agree until I listen to the absolute rot the athiest come up with. Guilt free baby murder, gross immorality and no logic. Give me reasoned faith anyday.

Bernadi, while being on the fringe of the coalition can't be called an extremist as most of his views while not representative of the majority of Australians (incl myself) are mainstream within the population.

To get extremist views you need to look at the far right One nation party, or the far Left Greens, where you will find screwballs disconnected with reality.

As far as employee negotiations are concerned, while union thuggery might get employees higher wages in the short term, businesses that don't take on the unions head on usually close eventually, as has happened in the car industry, and is happening to Quantas.

The proof of the pudding is that with AWAs (brought in by Keating) the average real wage of the bottom quarter of Australians rose more under Howard than any other comparable decade in Australian history.

Under Labor, productivity has plummeted, and businesses are closing left right and center.

OTB I am writing extremely slowly please try to keep up.
I wizz past your posts, but see my name on them flicker AS I travel past please aDdress your comments to others not me I NEVER READ THEM.
I started this thread about a man CLEARLY out of touch with his own party.
I even stated SOME just as damaging to the whole, exist in the ALP.
Some truly stunning defenders of the bloke prove, conservatives never find fault in their team!
Cory opens wounds and as in my link takes on his own side publicly.
I however am blessed by the humor I find in the anti ALP fixed right no need to think reply's!
Look honestly I never knew fair dinkum, not a clue.
That to be a Conservative supporter you had to lock your brain away!
Never guessed, should have, once known so much becomes clear.

SM is still denying we have a new govt; Albeit in isolation from themselves. Lost at sea you could say. Even the fat boy has gone into hiding, this govt; has come to office with no policy and no idea how to make one. Can anyone imagine the next 100 days. Every business has a business plan, Abbott has a pile of decaying slogans and nothing else.
A veil of secrecy surrounds us all, not allowed to know what is going on. No direction and no idea.

SM,
You labelled One Nation as extreme.

Would you please quote a policy that ON held that was extreme.

They had differing policies than the major parties, but hardly be classified as extreme. In fact the libs adopted some which took away some of their support base.

Ye gods Belly you are desperate to side-step your Labor leadership's admitted Fabian Socialism. There wouldn't be a day go by without one of the middles class educated elite that advise and lead Labor by the nose, declaring their 'Progressive' policies, direction and so on.

'Progressive'=Fabian Socialist=International Socialist=Marxist

Make that cafe latte communist, they ARE middle class educated elite after all.

Belly, as long as the tail of 'Progressive'=Fabian Socialist=International Socialist=Marxist elite of humanities academics, public service bureaucrats and leftie lawyers have their snouts in the trough and swing the Labor dog you are going to have hypocrisy and a heap of negative unintended consequences.

Not that the horde of 'Progressives' who swing from the Guvvy teat (make that the Taxpayer's teat) care or will ever be accountable for the damage they do. Idealism first and stuff the consequences, eh what? International socialists who foolishly believed that opening Australia's doors to economic migrants might ingratiate them to similar international socialists abroad. Fat chance! Just a Ruddy mess.