Goon has posed a very important dilemma:"whoever wins the...

Goon has posed a very important dilemma:

"whoever wins the election will have to deal
with that truth....higher wages = small
businesses going to the wall, low wages=
ordinary people unable to have a decent
quality of life."

There is nothing new under the sun
and what you describe has occured
in Australia before and was solved
with superb finesse and aplomb
by one of Australia's best and
fairest Prime Ministers,
Bob Hawke.

When Hawkie came to power he ended a
terrible period in Australia when conflict
and mutual suspicion (fanned by the
Liberals for 'divide and conquer' gain)
had caused industrial disputes to
reach record levels that lowered
productivity and profits for
workers and bosses and
for the nation as a whole.

Then and now the Liberals prefer the
bitter atmposphere of a 'house divided
against itself' to the atmosphere
of co-operation and accord that
Hawke introduced that triggered
a period of unparalled prosperity,
social progress and mutual respect
overseen by the Prices Surveillance
Authority keeping an eye on prices to see
they remained affordable for workers
(to reduce the pressure for wage rises)
and the Arbitration Commission keeping
an eye on wages to see they were
affordable by business to reduce the
pressure for business to increase
prices to stay profitable.

Sadly for the common welfare
of all Australians, Howard's Liberals
LOATHE the atmosphere of co-operation
and mutual respect (Labor introduced
under 'The Accord') and Howard worked
tirelessly to demolish the Prices
Surveillance Authority and the
Arbitration Commission to drag
Australia back into the Dark Ages
of Dog-Eat-Dog conflict and
hostilty (between capital and
labour) because it's in that
grisly atmophere that John
Howard's 'Law and Order'
pseudo-answers are
most likely to find
converts.

With military coups topplng democracies in
iBurma, Thailand, Pakistan and elsewhere,
what's remarkable about Hitler's rise
to power is his National Socialists
were *elected* to power with a
very similar anti-trade union
and kid-caging racist plalform
that Howard's Neo-Nazis are
offering Aussie voters - sugar-coated
with tax cuts and hand-outs to
disquise a total-control agenda.

Malcolm Fraser (a genuine Liberal) has
been trying to warn other genuine
Liberals that the party that Bob
Menzies founded has been
infiltrated by HR Nichlolls
Society extremist economic
troglodytes and by mindless
kid-caging brown-shirts in
$2000 business suits.

BUT while-ever the 'good times' keep
rolling for share and housing profiteers
who gives a rat's backside about a sillly
old fool like Malcolm Fraser.

Though I'm a Labor voter, I give great
credance to Malcolm Fraser as what
he says has the ring of authenticity
from an Aussie 'elder statesman'.

OK so Malcolm came from a snobby
Western Districts of Victoria rural
background - but what a lot of
people forget about the older
pastoral families of Victoria
is they place great store
on Noblige Oblesse...

"The nobility is obligated to
serve the common welfare."

Which is why Malcolm and
his daughter Pheobe have
taken leaderhip roles
in 'Care Australia'.

Phillip Ruddock's daugther Kirsty left
home (and Australia) because she
couldn't stand to live under the same
roof as a serial child abuser who
wears an 'Amnesty International'
lapel pin to TV interviews
to kid viewers he's humane!

I don't know if Rudd (not being
from trade union background)
has the same insights into and
passion for a just and fair economy
as Hawkie had, but Rudd is so far in
front of Howard (when it comes to
being who he really is) that in my
opinion, Rudd is the lesser of the
two political evils that face voters.