@Glen McWilliams said:
I found this interesting
http://grogsgamut.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/election-2013-newspapers.html
Yes, it's very interesting and supports my point in a previous post, exactly. The Australian public have been spoon fed this garbage for the 6 years of Labor leadership and they swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Labor was never given any leeway to govern the bloody nation without someone jumping on their backs about every trivial thing - be it the gutter press or some smarmy, sniveling opposition politician, yet they still managed to pass more legislation than any other govt in our history.
Since the mainstream media have never bothered to acknowledge _anything_ good that the Rudd/Gillard govts did, I'd like you to consider their achievements that I've listed below:
It actually had to guts to say 'Sorry' to Indigenous Australians for the stolen generations, something long overdue and something that John Howard was too frightened to do because of the supposed legal repercussions that have never eventuated. The restoration and healing of our nation brought about by this act was phenomenal.
It dismantled the unpopular Work Choices reform and introduced Fair Work Australia in its place.
It acted quickly to save us from recession during the world’s financial and economic meltdown, but just as important, it resisted cutting the Budget to shreds when revenue fell, despite immense political pressure to do so.
It transformed our schools and our schooling (Gonski), thus setting us up for the future and giving our children the best possible start in life. It invested wisely in tertiary education, including trades, to meet the needs of a growing and changing economy.
It made the biggest cuts on consumer prices of medicines in Australian history under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and allocated funding for children and concession holders to receive dental insurance through Medicare.
It created the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
It raised the pension to a decent level.
It introduced paid parental leave.
It implemented a national pay increase for Careworkers (an industry group that has been ignored by previous govts)
It introduced the 'Living Longer, Living Better' Aged Care reforms in July 2013.
It invested in roads, ports and other infrastructure that was holding us back because the previous Coalition govt ignored it.
It improved relations with China whilst maintaining a strong US commitment. In fact, its Foreign Affairs was excellent throughout its term.
It fixed the Murray-Darling river system.
It put a price on carbon that would've led to a transformation of our energy generation, if given a chance.
It was building an NBN that would've transformed the way we live and work for the better and moved us up to speed with the rest of the world.
It tried hard to stem the flow of boat people, but was blocked at every turn by an Opposition that revelled in the political mileage gained from it, whilst the media preyed on this situation by discrediting Labor's Immigration policy and painting the asylum seekers coming to our shores as akin to being invaded by the Nazis!
And it did all this, for the most part, as a **minority** government in the face of unfair resistance and schoolyard bullying from Tony Abbott & co and years of division within its own ranks.
Now, after reading the above (stuff you would never see written in the Murdoch Press or heard about on 2GB), can someone please tell me what the hell was so wrong with this last government that it needed to be changed, because when I usually ask this question to people all they can do is parrot the same crap that the mainstream media spews out - they have no real idea of their own.
During this year, I have met many people from other countries who thought that Australians were insane wanting a new government when the one they had was doing so well running their country, especially compared to the rest of the world! What does this say about us? I can only deduce that the majority of Australians are just a bunch of spoilt, ignorant whingers, who care only for their own little world and have no idea when they've got it good - me included!
Let the games begin! :mrgreen:
