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15/05/24

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Originally posted by pintohoo: ↑

“Tradies are as scarce as rocking horse poop thanks to past Govt being MIA on supporting business to employ and train.”

The root cause is business avoidance of responsibility - cheaper and easier to buy experience

“Pollies in Oz and elsewhere have lost a very basic skill, and that is the ability to "sell" a good policy to the people and get them to come along with them.”

maybe

half agree, but when a population is stubbornly, wilfully self interested and refuses to be anything more - are any policies which require pulling together saleable at all?

this is a country ignorant of history, ignorant of where it came from, not interested at all in setting a destination

to change that IMO, doesn’t require a skill - it requires a visionary who can carry a country on their back

a real Benjamin Franklin

where can we get one of them?

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the last one of those was Hawke and Keating era . Nobody since has been as connected to the punters
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