A THREAT by Julia Gillard to withhold more than $15 billion in funding to the states should they refuse to adopt the Commonwealth's health and hospitals reforms is the latest push by the prime minister to ensure Labor delivers its policy agenda this year.
Isn't that sort of thing usually called blackmail?
In reality, we don't know if Labor's health reforms are going to be any better or worse than we what have now. I suspect this is no more than another money grab by Gillard and is the reason that the now Liberal Victorian government is refusing her health reform.
Surely the Governor General should be stepping in to stop this nonsense just as Whitlam was stopped.
Oh that's right - she might step on family toes...
