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Originally Posted by rjt
No but it now has a government commited to a backward looking ecnomic policy, that will hike taxes up making the economy less productive and create a subsistance culture which benefits the idle and penalises the hard working. It will also seek to weaken the ties between Australia and Britian.
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The state governments have been Labor for eons, and there are no signs of economic disaster in the normal sense, apart from massive inflation. Australia's economy tends to be more closely tied to commodities than anything else. Also, if the new federal government does in fact reverse the centralizing tendencies of the previous régime - a mighty big if - then the federal influence on local and state politics will be rightfully diminished.
IMO there should have been a sunset clause imposed when the states ceded their tax-levying powers to Canberra during WW2.
I'd take the likes of Kevin Rudd or Helen Clark over any slimeball neo-Maoist-Stalinist EU politician any day ending in a Y, but then again, that could be like suggesting cyanide is preferable to strychnine?