RisingPhoenix
Club Legend
Very much like Keating actually.
Both parliamentary warriors of the highest order.
When you compare them to Plibersek, Kate Ellis, Shorten and the like it's sad to see how badly the ALP talent pool has run dry.
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Very much like Keating actually.
One could argue the reason for his economic failures was because he pushed through costly reforms and policies - ones that changed the country forever for the better. Short term pain for long term gain.
Everyone keeps avoiding the elephant in the room.
I know that he would not be known for economic failures if the anti communist west had not wanted him to be.
In less than three years:
- Created Medibank (now known as Medicare)
- Introduced Legal Aid
- Introduced free University
- Started work on the establishment of new hospitals in suburban Australia including Sunshine Hospital
- Increased schools' funding
- Increased social security spending on pensions and unemployment benefits
- Established Commonwealth funding responsibility for Universities
- Provided 'state aid' to non-Government schools
- Returned land to the Gurindji people and drafted the Land Rights Act
- Granted independence to PNG
- Established diplomatic relations with China
- Withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam
- Abolished the White Australia Policy
- Introduced Multiculturalism as Australian Government policy
- Fought for equal pay for women
- Instituted no-fault divorce
- Unilaterally cut Australian tariffs
- Introduced the Trade Practices Act banning anti-competitive conduct
- Ratified the World Heritage Convention and protected the Great Barrier Reef from oil drilling
- Created the Australia Council for the Arts
- Founded Triple J (then Double J)
- Connected suburban homes to sewerage
- Funded urban public transport projects and rail electrification
- Introduced Advance Australia Fair as the national anthem
If only we could find a politician these days, from either side of politics, willing to stick to his convictions and make fundamental change happen instead of talking about it.
Its only when you look back now and see what he introduced, medicare, land rights and reform, visit to China, ending conscription and free university are giant of achievements.
Why not? There's tonnes of such comments relating to Thatcher's death as an example and the left literally thought it was in everyone's interest to condemn and criticise her.
Could say the same about Gough not looking after both sides. Not to mention many opf the Thatcher policies were repeated here and in other places but because they were not run by a right wing government they were seen as ok.Maybe the reason is Gough strived to address inequality and wanted to implement policies that encouraged social inclusion while Thatcher disdained even the very concept of a society and seemed to be only driven by the need to enrich her Tory cohorts.
I didn't realise he had done so much damage. When you read it like that, he is as bad as any we've had.- Created Medibank (now known as Medicare)
- Introduced free University
- Increased schools' funding
- Established Commonwealth funding responsibility for Universities
- Provided 'state aid' to non-Government schools
- Introduced Multiculturalism as Australian Government policy
- Fought for equal pay for women
Could say the same about Gough not looking after both sides. Not to mention many opf the Thatcher policies were repeated here and in other places but because they were not run by a right wing government they were seen as ok.
I suppose he thought that after 30 years of being looked after, the other side was in an okay state.Could say the same about Gough not looking after both sides. Not to mention many opf the Thatcher policies were repeated here and in other places but because they were not run by a right wing government they were seen as ok.
George Lakoff and Michel Foucault would be proud of such loaded revisionist framing, even if it is blatantly transparent.So in hindsight it was this period in time and reforms that started the sense of entitlement(which every subsequent Government fed and grew) we now see in today's society?
George Lakoff and Michel Foucault would be proud of such loaded revisionist framing, even if it is blatantly transparent.
Says you.
I'm genuinely interested to know when the idea of Governments providing s**t for free came into vogue. Given every other Government that followed kept up with this ideal it's hardly a partisan question.
Social Welfare started when unions formed in the industrial revolution and workers in factories decided they did not like being treated like slaves. I suppose you would like to go back to the laws of the beginning of the industrial revolution as that allowed the rich to do pretty much whatever they wanted.
I'd like to go back further than that. To times when if you didn't contribute you got nothing.
Those who contribute the most should benefit the most.
Those who contribute the most should benefit the most.
In less than three years:
- Created Medibank (now known as Medicare)
- Introduced Legal Aid
- Introduced free University
- Started work on the establishment of new hospitals in suburban Australia including Sunshine Hospital
- Increased schools' funding
- Increased social security spending on pensions and unemployment benefits
- Established Commonwealth funding responsibility for Universities
- Provided 'state aid' to non-Government schools
- Returned land to the Gurindji people and drafted the Land Rights Act
- Granted independence to PNG
- Established diplomatic relations with China
- Withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam
- Abolished the White Australia Policy
- Introduced Multiculturalism as Australian Government policy
- Fought for equal pay for women
- Instituted no-fault divorce
- Unilaterally cut Australian tariffs
- Introduced the Trade Practices Act banning anti-competitive conduct
- Ratified the World Heritage Convention and protected the Great Barrier Reef from oil drilling
- Created the Australia Council for the Arts
- Founded Triple J (then Double J)
- Connected suburban homes to sewerage
- Funded urban public transport projects and rail electrification
- Introduced Advance Australia Fair as the national anthem
If only we could find a politician these days, from either side of politics, willing to stick to his convictions and make fundamental change happen instead of talking about it.
In less than three years:
- Created Medibank (now known as Medicare)
- Introduced Legal Aid
- Introduced free University
- Started work on the establishment of new hospitals in suburban Australia including Sunshine Hospital
- Increased schools' funding
- Increased social security spending on pensions and unemployment benefits
- Established Commonwealth funding responsibility for Universities
- Provided 'state aid' to non-Government schools
- Returned land to the Gurindji people and drafted the Land Rights Act
- Granted independence to PNG
- Established diplomatic relations with China
- Withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam
- Abolished the White Australia Policy
- Introduced Multiculturalism as Australian Government policy
- Fought for equal pay for women
- Instituted no-fault divorce
- Unilaterally cut Australian tariffs
- Introduced the Trade Practices Act banning anti-competitive conduct
- Ratified the World Heritage Convention and protected the Great Barrier Reef from oil drilling
- Created the Australia Council for the Arts
- Founded Triple J (then Double J)
- Connected suburban homes to sewerage
- Funded urban public transport projects and rail electrification
- Introduced Advance Australia Fair as the national anthem
If only we could find a politician these days, from either side of politics, willing to stick to his convictions and make fundamental change happen instead of talking about it.