Saturday, January 29, 2011

Labor's Vision Reduced to Political Appeasement

Whatever happened to Australian political leadership? Where are the bold visions that brought us the Snowy Hydro Scheme under Menzies, national Medicare under Whiltam, the aboriginal vote under Fraser, reform of our financial systems under Hawke and Keating, waterfront and tax reform under Howard?

Modern Labor, the once great party of shearers, builders and labourers, has been hijacked by academic elitists, ruthless backroom operators and smart-arsed political spin doctors. They delivered 'Kevin 07' - then assassinated him when voters realized he was a hollow man.

They replaced him with a hollow woman who the media had been fawning over for months beforehand.

Mark Arbib and his shadowy comrades would be happy with the result. As the campaign progresses Julia stays on-message and doesn't deviate from her focus-group scripts. She doesn't dare!

Her vision has been reduced to meaningless mantras and a couple of targeted pork-barrels for school uniforms and a 'banger buy-back scheme' for university students.

Helen Keller once said 'the only thing worse that being blind would be to have sight but no vision'. If she had known Julia Gillard she may well have added 'or the cowardice to tell voters what you have in mind for them after the election'.

Julia has done a secret preference deal with her ideological soul-mate from the Greens, Dr Bob Brown. We can only wonder why neither one will talk about the details. What we do know is the Greens want to close down our mining industries, open up our borders, introduce a crippling carbon tax and legalise drugs. We can only assume we are in for a toxic Green shock if they want to keep it a secret.

If voters think the price of electricity, petrol and groceries are high at the moment they better brace themselves. Australia is set to become a net importer of food and energy sooner rather than later.

Julia's vision for Australia does not include any grand plans for nation building. No fast trains, airports, power stations, highways or new cities. Her decision to create community focus groups from amongst her camp followers to advise on illegal immigrants, climate change, population growth and mung-bean production is more reminiscent of a vision-impaired political quisling than an aspiring Prime Minister.

It's obviously too much to ask her fawning cheer squad from the media to question this style of political appeasement to focus-group ideology.

Our Australian nation, discovered, developed and defended by courageous leaders in days gone by, is now threatened by a couple of ideological hacks who have signed off on a secret deal that will undermine our economic prosperity and our social values.