Excellent post, and very well said. Unfortunately, Labor also...

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18/04/18

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Originally posted by Lapdog ↑

It's my view that the Coalition's economic model is coming apart at the seams.

That model has at its core:
1. Spiralling property prices fuelled by high levels of immigration - even Tony Abbott is seeking a 50% reduction.
2. The transfer of wealth from those with least of it to those with most of it - after ten long years of this Australians on lower socio-economic rungs of the ladder are struggling to keep their heads above water.
3. The discredited notion that large corporations will treat voluntarily treat their workers fairly - following the release of Herbert Smith's research that blatant lie is an Emperor without clothes.
4. Exploitation of the environment and even precious, scarce resources such as the Darling River's water - natural systems such as the Menindee lakes and the Coorong are in their death throws.
5. Continuing trade arrangements with China - exporting education, our dirt and our garbage for example. Coalition MPs are spitting in Chinese faces and seemingly still unaware that China is progressively turning off the taps.
6. Refusal to invest public money in properly planned, long-term core infrastructure projects, preferring instead to bankroll WMDs.
7. As with the late 1800s, the import of cheap and unskilled labour to satiate $Greed.

We're in deep doggie dooooo with NO light on the horizon as the Coalition's benefactors and great big backers fight over entrails and what's left of the spoils.

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Excellent post, and very well said. Unfortunately, Labor also subscribes to points 1,4,5,6 and 7 and in practice, if not in rhetoric, to 2 and 3 as well.

I believe Australia needs a political alternative. While there is no ideal solution, the Australian Conservatives look the best to me, at least on paper.
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