Australian Election 2007: Dislodged From The Lodge

Saturday Nov 24 night of the long knives: Maxine de-fangs the big'un in Bennelong;

Abbott the enforcer shoots himself in the foot; stormtrooper Brough blacklisted; Downer done and dusted, and, treasurer Costello and Nationals leader Vaile fall on their swords leaving young-Turks to trawl over the entrails. Suddenly, a conservatives wet dream was over. And how sweet it is!

I say that, lest we forget that Lazarus with the triple bypass loaded us with a never-ever goods and services tax; turned a blind eye to AWBs (wheat board) 300 million-dollar kickback to Saddam and, despite our protests, followed the riders of the Apocalypse to Armageddon in Iraq looking for fictional WMD (weapons of mass destruction).

Remember balaclava clad security and guard dogs, and Dubai-trained scab labour on the waterfront, in the darkness of night breaking the backs of maritime unions; commandos boarding Tampa; lies about children overboard; scrapping of the free dental scheme; abolition of ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission); refusal to apologise to the stolen generation; wrongful deportation of Australian citizens and reneging on non-core promises.

Remember $100,000 university degrees; two-tiered health system; massive 400 billion- dollar foreign debt that no one speaks of; 500 million-dollar political advertising; pork barrelling out of control; vicious welfare reforms; stacking the ABCs board; bizarre appointment of an archbishop as governor general; politicization of the public service and federal police; deputy sheriff riding roughshod over East Timor, New Guinea and the Solomons; Pacific solution with prisons on Nauru and Manus islands; brutalization of asylum seekers and compulsory detention of refugees.

Who can forget the misuse of the senate to rubberstamp Dickensian industrial relations laws? Or the desperate Black-Kid-Tampa policy that put soldiers in aboriginal settlements and undermined native title? Or David Hicks abandoned in a hellhole in Guantanamo Bay? Or the Haneef affair that tainted and diminished us all?

And in the bargain, an immoral foreign policy turned half the world against us. Am I sorry its over? Hell no!

Alain Leveque

by: loulou

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