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Tony Abbott recalls the 11 years of the Howard government as a golden age and one gets the impression he would like Homer to nip back to record its god-like political heroes in an Aussie Iliad.
He put passionate nostalgia up front in a speech last week which revealed the core of the Abbott electoral philosophy. He is promising a former Australia preserved in Liberal amber.
It would be an Australia where no one had to share a suburban street with boat people, where factories operated in defiance of cheaper, better goods made overseas, and climate change was a minority fad, like fast-speed internet.
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Nobody likes to look incompetent or inept. So it’s no wonder the Federal Government fought to keep secret a report that revealed the $3.5 billion it spends each year on indigenous programs has generated “dismally poor returns”.
Close to two years after a 470-page Finance Department report slammed the Government’s management of indigenous programs and expenditure there’s been no radical movement, no overhaul of the Departments responsible, and none of the 115 recommendations adopted.
The report may never have even been made public save for a long-running freedom of information case brought by Channel 7.
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Sam p says:
The money went into the pockets of non Aboriginal people, they dont consult, then employ non.Aboriginals for a paid holiday. Its as well planned as the alpine grazing trial, if your going to control humans like a dictatorship then take responsabillity for the repeat failures, the Aboriginal population is growing… Read more »
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xar says:
I don’t have the answers, I wish I did. People seem to propose stuff that either involves cultural whitewashing or things which have already been implemented with a massive failure rate. Read more »
Most people won’t even register that there is something different about this year’s census, but I will be cracking open the champagne and waving a flag. A big, bright, rainbow flag.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics gets a gong this week for being the first government department to recognise my overseas same-sex marriage to my partner, Sarah.
One small tick for the box, one giant tick for the ABS.
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Disraeli says:
If you cannot keep control of yourself, under fair and civil criticism of your remarks, you’re wasting your time posting. Having lost your self-control, you indulge in sprays of insensate personal insult and false personal assumption. These add no weight to your opinion. They leave me utterly unmoved. You have… Read more »
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Govt@FauxCitizen says:
@ Disraeli,,Honest and law abiding decent peope know their moral and legal boundaries and unspoken civic obligations, how many plumbers, electricians, builders, doctors, police,nurses, drivers etc. have that all important peice of paper for wich the state gets their fees and hapily allows the incompetants to perform less than reasonably,… Read more »
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