lizbeff eaglez wrote:Your whole intrest rates election winner last time aint gonna wash this time round. U sad bstds keep going on about 17% rates high unemployment, the recession etc etc. Get over it. That was Pushing 2 decades ago the world is a different place now. If the Libs never took office we would be where we are now. In the current(last 10 years) world economic climate your government would have to be completly incompetent not to bring all of these key areas down.
More people are in debt this time around, I suggest you read a book called "Affluenza" by Clive Hamilton if you really want to know what the mood of the community is, while you are at it check out an article online called "South Park Conservatives" which focuses on why younger people, those in the demographic that watch the tv cartoon South Park think it is cool to vote right wing and expousse conservative views, this group is the fastest growing group of voters world wide.
Labor governments are renown for spending money not saving it, their spending pushes up inflation and triggers interest rate rises. That is what will be the issue fought over at the next election.
Just out of interest, I would have thought that Elizabeth was a Labor area, yet in the last election, Family First have their vote up to 6% in that seat, a scenario that is being repeated in many "safe" Labor seats. If Labor are to win, they need Family First preferences, should be fun to watch the battle fought in the Labor party over that one, the same argument helped break up the Democrats, so how Labor handle that issue will be interesting. Labor federal preferences in Victoria got Steve Fielding in who promptly put an end to compulsory student unionism, so I am sure that Labor may not be making that mistake again, yet at the same time if in the Blue Ribbon seats Labor voters are being picked off by Family First, they may well have a hard decision to make.
