Dear Armchair Critic,

Actually i wasn't thinking of ALTRAV when making the comment, I don't bother reading his stuff anymore and haven't for a while. It was more the Hasbeens and Shadow Ministers who have swallowed the playbook.

There are even Liberal senators protesting the use of right-wing in the threat assessments from ASIO.

"Liberal senator tells Asio chief his use of term ‘rightwing’ can offend conservatives"
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/02/liberal-senator-tells-asio-chief-his-use-of-term-rightwing-can-offend-conservatives

What a bunch of craven PC snowflakes they really are.

AC, unlike SR, you display a certain amount of maturity and pragmatism, and not prone to emotional, subjective, ideological dogma or beliefs.
The fact that SR admits he doesn't read me anymore, demonstrates a petulant, childlike and emotional, irrational mindset.
So it is with some satisfaction that another of the irrelevant club abstains from commenting leaving more room for everyone else, and open for a more mature and engaging discussion/debate.

Hasbeen,
There's no need to resort to "pretend make work" jobs - there's no shortage of things that we'd benefit from having done, that are currently not getting done due to lack of funding.

But creating the conditions & environment that enables private business to create jobs was a large part of what I meant.
The government running industry was not.

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ALTRAV,
It's a pity you don't want to continue this discussion. But there are a few points you should consider even if you don't want to discuss them:

• When productivity improves, why should workers be excluded from the benefit of that?

• You seem to have very different standards of success and failure than most people do. Is there any objectivity to them?

• Just because you're blind to the difference doesn't mean actions and circumstances are the same.