You started off correctly, praising the economic reformist policies of Hawke and Keating. I remember them both - voted for them both. Post Beazley, Labor lost the plot.
As for the quote above, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. For a start, it's not revenue raising we need; quite the opposite. What's needed is to slash expenditure. Nations need to live within their means as households do. As our Treasurer accurately said, welfare is a safety net, not a hammock. There is enormous padding in welfare that just needs courage to trim.
As for Shorten, he's from the same School of Economic Imbecility as Gillard and Rudd. He has absolutely no clue about economics, like them. In fact Shorten is beholden to the militant unions and is a risk of being even more disastrous than those two.
Economics 101 - look at our economy and debt when Howard left; look at the carnage and debt 6 years of Labor profligacy left our children. Even Hawke and Keating are ashamed of how their legacy is being trashed by modern Labor. Hawke was our best ever Labor PM. Gillard and Rudd the two worst ever - of any persuasion. Shorten is a Gillard clone. A union stooge.
