On Whitlam Numerous parks, recreation centres, car parks and...

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    On Whitlam Numerous parks, recreation centres, car parks and buildings are names after this labor man.
    Every labor campaign launch those chosen by labor to lead us, they verbally gush about him, they cry in his presence. They rush to touch his coat take a strand of his hair to have him cloned.
    Labor recycles failure well.

    Those of the more stable persuasion see right through him like glass. Gough was a crushing failure as PM.

    One of the few and maybe the only Whitlam policy that was any good was the RED scheme.
    Regional Economic Scheme this was to designed to build up areas outside of the major cities a process of decentralisation. Labor loved it when Gough came up with the policy.

    YET when Tony Abbott spoke of a draft discussion paper that contained similar ideas he was broadsided by labor. When I was younger I worked at Mt Newman in WA and it was a tax advantaged zone. It helped get the

    Conroy (the skiing one) went feral, yet his NBN could actually get some customers up north. Carr flys over the north when he goes OS. Unions hate it because workers will get higher wages less tax and have less need for their 'labor values' Thomson style.

    The fact is labor has no ideas that don't involve Chinese money. Tony is on a winner and someone needs to remind the labor party, the Obied one that Gough the magnificent thought Regional economic development was a good idea.
 
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