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Peter Garrett flips 30 years of environmental activism to embrace Labor’s weak enviropolicies; Krudd looks more and more like HoWARd-lite at every possible turn, up to and including being soft on repealing even the most heinous provisions of WorkChoices <\/strike>. Why? Could it all be to attract enough votes to win government, but once in the catbird seat, to enact more progressive policies?<\/p>\n
Ross Gittins ponders the purpose of Labor’s prima facie<\/em> centrist nonsense in his op-ed piece<\/a> in todays’ SMH. Could KRudd be a silent socialist waiting to pupate? Is Garrett poised to pounce on the pulp mill<\/a> once out of shadow ministry? Maybe. Maybe not.<\/p>\n Forgive me, but even with Labor’s crushing poll lead, I still can’t bring myself to fully trust the ‘unemployed diplomat who speaks Chinese<\/a>‘ nor even consider an increasingly likely Labor landslide as a sure thing. Even if it’s essentially a done deal (and with a 58% to 42% ALP lead<\/a>, it’s hard to consider it anything else), I want nothing to do with Labor mimicking centre-right ‘New Labour’ or ‘Clinton Democrats.’ Australia has been given away to HoWARd’s fatcat mates- and the balance of power has got to be shifted back to Australian working people.<\/p>\n Did you catch Peter Costello on the 7:30 Report<\/a> last night? Combative, arrogant, smirking- to the point of putting people offside who had their TV on mute. Anyone as desirous of power as Costello shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near it. Yeah, you betcha- I want to see a Swan-Costello debate. Bring on the worm<\/a>. Mind you, if there’s any women pushing the worm’s buttons, you might need a taller TV screen to see just how low<\/em> it burrows for Petey.<\/p>\n Still planning upon voting Green and preferencing Labor- for now.<\/p>\n -weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Garrett flips 30 years of environmental activism to embrace Labor’s weak enviropolicies; Krudd looks more and more like HoWARd-lite at every possible turn, up to and including being soft on repealing even the most heinous provisions of WorkChoices . Why? Could it all be to attract enough votes to win government, but once in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}