Dry Rot said:
Obviously Howard would counter it. Cheap stunt by Latham to grab green votes and stupid if he wanted to win the election. Soon as I heard it, I said there goes 2 or 3 seats in Tasmania.
What cost the seats in Tassie was Howard's response, not the ALP policy at the start.
Dry Rot said:
Really? I recall a small problem with tables. Inexcusable stuff-up, really buggered their message and immediately put them under the pump. Best present Peter Costello got all year.
That was a small problem. Hardly worth the song and dance Costello made about it - and besides, it was Costello that garbled the message, not Latham.
Dry Rot said:
No losers? The poorest families had their payments cut back under the tax & family policy. Students and families had payments cut back to richest schools (I liked this but they are still losers)
Over the calendar year there was no such cutback to the family policy. You're thinking along the same lines as Costello was and that line of thinking was flawed.
On the education, those students and families could have gone back to the public system - which would have been better funded under the changes and eliminated a lot of the problems that were driving the richer away and depriving the poorer of a decent education.