Is this the death Howard’s agenda?
Yesterday the Leader of the Liberal Party federally dumped the ideological platform that drove his predecessor and the party over the last years: WorkChoices. Industrial relations reform was supposedly the bedrock of the country’s solid economic performance. Now it’s gone.
On the same day ASIC brings legal action against six former executives of the AWB, the mob who bribed Saddam Hussein.
One cannot fail to recall children overboard, Tampa, the politicisation of the public service, the judiciary and the board of the ABC to mention a few. The farcical Haneef saga, the careful building of xenophobia and the intolerance of Sudanese. The denial of climate change, the perversion of national pride to political ends, the introduction of WorkChoices out of opportunism rather than coherent necessity and the replacement of ministerial responsibility with plausible denial. Promotion of the therm ’black arm band’ vierw of history, Northern Territory intervention along with the promise of a referendum on an Indigenous preamble to the Constitution.
They stood for nothing in the end; but themselves.
