Trucks
As the trucks thunder into Canberra, or try to, it appears they have been blocked somewhere short of Parliament House.
It’s not yet clear why they were blocked, but Alan Jones has just called it “the most disgraceful thing that has ever been done to democracy” and “a total corruption of the democratic process”. Meanwhile, Bronwyn Bishop said “we have a government that is not legitimate”.
With all due respect to Australia’s most popular broadcaster and one of our most senior politicians, those claims are way over the top. They simply don’t have the right to make them. But there are some people on the streets of Libya this morning who do.
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While Italian politics is unable to go a week without some 18-year-old girl claiming to have had a sixsome with the Prime Minister, Australian politics has more of an unusual fetish for utility vehicles.
Barely a week after things settled down with the utegate scandal we are now confronted by “Truckasaurus 09” or “The battle of competing political propaganda trucks” (I prefer the former).
This is a new model of what was an old Coalition campaign introduced to draw attention to the Keating Government’s foreign debt in 1996.
It was also the same year that the Coalition took control of Government from Labor after ten years in trucking wilderness.
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briperth says:
The Australian dream. To own your own home. All pollies encourage us to borrow to buy our home, the debt to be paid off over 20 to 30 years. BUT!! some say it is not ok for the government to borrow money on our behalf, to be paid back over… Read more »
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Not sure if it was Bowen I heard on the radio but the one and only comment that actually made the most sense was - the level of government debt can be compared to a household with an income of $100,000 borrowing an amount of $5,000. The liberal scare campaign… Read more »
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