Leaping Lindner wrote:I think the thing that this shows is people will vote for what is best for them. Howard is obviously working in that regard for a lot of people. Personally Federal Government funding (or should I say the cutting there of) has directly cost me employment on two occassions. Not that the Labor party would have necessarily done any better by me.
As for core and social values, the day I agree with The Lyons Forum (sorry Political Reform Group) it will be a cold day in hell. Mind you once again like the Labor party are any better with their Faith and Values Group.
That's the nature of politics, being a "moderate" whatever that means today is a hard road to travel. One thing is for sure Labor has moved steadily to the right over the last 30 years, I genuinely feel for those people from working class backgrounds (rather than union hacks) who grew up with the party, the values of Curtin and Chifley are ancient history- "dinosaurs" perhaps. Australia has moved on and John Howard has had the ability to work out what the majority of us want, so if you are pissed off with having to pay HECS it's too bad, most of us don't care, by the same token I've been screwed as a non custodial parent thanks to what happened during the Hawke/Keating era, Johnny is reforming this area to make it fairer (in my opinion

