Anyone happy that Rudd is the new PM?

[stan]

Guys I said it before and I'll say it again, Bart Simpson could have one the election and interest will still go up.

[mighty_tiger_79]

its only natural interest rates will go up

[TroyGFC]

LBT wrote:
TroyGFC wrote:
Very happy and proud to call myself Australian now. If a Rudd government does 1/2 of there election promises they will have already done more good things than a Howard government has done in it 's 11+ years.


Just dont tell Tassie.


Why not Tassie voted ALP, all five seats back in ALP hands.....

Very happy and proud to call myself Australian now. If a Rudd government does 1/2 of there election promises they will have already done more good things than a Howard government has done in it 's 11+ years.

Just dont tell Tassie.

Why not Tassie voted ALP, all five seats back in ALP hands.....

MMMM but you told Wedgie on other post that you would help support his job!!

[am Bays]

Just dont tell Tassie.

Why not Tassie voted ALP, all five seats back in ALP hands.....

MMMM but you told Wedgie on other post that you would help support his job!!

Rushby, R&B, anyone can you help Troy out here......

[Ian]

People under 35 would have voted in the majority for Rudd as they dont remember the high interest rates under previous Labor governments.

That period you refer to would be the same time that interest rates soured all around the developed world.........no matter which persuasion of government was in force, there is a lot more to interest rates than just the govt. in power at the time, thats why I was so shocked when little Johnny made his promise re: interest rates prior to the last election, realisically it was the promise he could never keep.

I heard on the radio today that all of the major banks have been holding out on more interest rate rises that will be imposed by them to cover the spiralling increase in loan defaulters, they claim to be running their loan sections at a loss currently while they cover the defaulters, but did that so they would not be seen to be influencing the election result.

[am Bays]

I think Alan Ramsay is:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/howards-cronies-should-join-him-in-the-wilderness/2007/11/25/1195975868447.html

for those of you who don't know him Alan Ramsay is Bill Hayden's former media advisor. He is one of the few non-polititians recorded in Hansard (as "an interjection is heard"). He hates Bob Hawke with a passion for what he did to his boss in 1983 and has been a fervent critic of John Howard. In fact up until today I didn't know who he hated more Hawke or Howard....todays tome leaves me in no doubt.....

It is fair to say this piece has been written and re-worked several times since 1998 and Ramsay has been dying to see it published. All the pent up frustrations he has built up in 1998, 2001 and 2004 have been unleashed.....

[LBT]

Just dont tell Tassie.

Why not Tassie voted ALP, all five seats back in ALP hands.....

MMMM but you told Wedgie on other post that you would help support his job!!

Rushby, R&B, anyone can you help Troy out here......

The apple isle has done well for The ALP...Tassie Medallist however....

[Psyber]

Democracy has been excercised in a free country, the result is a result of democracy, maybe we can't all be happy, but FFS, you're gonna have to accept it.
Get used to it, it's for real, happy or not, there's jack sh!t you can do.
Except complain.
Democracy.

No there is more - I'm leaving! [OK I admit it I ws leaving anyway. ]

There is a lot of gloom from GPs on a medicine and health care related forum I logged into today. No one there had much confidence in Labor health policies delivering anything like they promised, but then they are biased by past experience. Not to many were over impressed with what the Libs did either though. The view is all parties neglect Health, but the idealogues actively bugger it up.

[Mr66]

Did you see the stupid cow on the news saying to little johnny
during his walk this morning,"they don't know what they've done!"

The "Born to Rule" attitude will always be a part of the right wing psyche in this country.

Mind you, Labor will probably eff everything up, thus proving this dill right.

[southee]

Did you see the stupid cow on the news saying to little johnny
during his walk this morning,"they don't know what they've done!"

The "Born to Rule" attitude will always be a part of the right wing psyche in this country.

Mind you, Labor will probably eff everything up, thus proving this dill right.

Then we will hear all the complaints!!!!

We shall all sit and wait......

[Rushby Hinds]

There is a lot of gloom from GPs on a medicine and health care related forum I logged into today.

Wow, surprising that the Doctors aren't happy, what with them all being traditional Labor voters...

And in breaking news, the traditionally right wing http://www.SheetMetalWorkers'r'us.forum.com have expressed tacit support for the Labor policies...

[Psyber]

There is a lot of gloom from GPs on a medicine and health care related forum I logged into today.

Wow, surprising that the Doctors aren't happy, what with them all being traditional Labor voters...

And in breaking news, the traditionally right wing http://www.SheetMetalWorkers'r'us.forum.com have expressed tacit support for the Labor policies...

Surprise, surprise, the link doesn't work either!

Doctors - oh that's right federal Health minister Dr Blewett was a PhD and John Bannon's Health minister was a VET I think - appropriate experts. Brendan Nelson quit the Labor Party in Tassie before becoming AMA President then joining the Libs. It is Lawyers who support Labor for altruistic reasons isn't it?

Seriously, the grizzles were about administration and patient welfare not about fees. Oddly enough the last big pay rise for doctors was when Gough introduced MediBank - it was supposed to lure them all into bulk-billing and make the creation of a UK style NHS easier.

Internationally, the biggest rise for doctors I know of was in the UK in 2003 - 35% in one year when they discovered doctors were retiring or leaving faster than they could steal them from developing countries to keep the NHS afloat!

[Squawk]

The ABC's Kerry O'Brien was happy on Saturday night with the Rudd win - try as hard as he might, he could not stop smirking at least and smiling in between!

[JK]

Wasn't the result I hoped for (but had expected), but I'm less unhappy with this new government than the alternatives (both personnel and policy) of other recent ALP attempts (hope I made sense there).

It's a new dawn, and you look toward it with optimism, so play on.

[maxyoz]

I suppose I could join in too – will the troops be home by Christmas? I can feel the cooler breezes now that Climate Change Control has taken effect, yadda yadda yadda.

A bit early to decide if the Labor Govt is doing a good or bad thing – after all, it’s been 3 days.

The Country voted, we have a change of Government – let’s decide in 2 or 3 years time at the next election if we are happy with Rudd as the new PM.

[mick]

No, but thats democracy. I think the left leaning, idealists will eventually become rather disappointed with the new government, the basics will remain the same, there will be no radical change in direction.

[topsywaldron]

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/howards-cronies-should-join-him-in-the-wilderness/2007/11/25/1195975868447.html

As long as our PM never plays dog whistle politics with race issues ever again I'll be happy.

Hopefully Kevin Andrews is mumbling "haneef...sudanese refugees...that'll fix the ALP...we've still got time to win" somewhere in Australia.

[redden whites]

As long as our PM never plays dog whistle politics with race issues ever again I'll be happy.

Hopefully Kevin Andrews is mumbling "haneef...sudanese refugees...that'll fix the ALP...we've still got time to win" somewhere in Australia.

I stand and applaud Topsy............... A Man wins an increased majority and control of the senate and blows it in 3 years complete with his own seat .Grimey little sod thought the country adored him when really they were suckered by the great scare campaign last time and proved how racist they are the time before.
I applaud the ALP for not mentioning the dead soldiers during the campaign especially when one died the day before the election.NOT 1 WORD for political gain .
KEVIN KRYPTONITE takes down THE MAN OF STEEL and the way this country in percieved elsewhere and the hopefully its morals become more positive from today

[mick]

As long as our PM never plays dog whistle politics with race issues ever again I'll be happy.

Hopefully Kevin Andrews is mumbling "haneef...sudanese refugees...that'll fix the ALP...we've still got time to win" somewhere in Australia.

I stand and applaud Topsy............... A Man wins an increased majority and control of the senate and blows it in 3 years complete with his own seat .Grimey little sod thought the country adored him when really they were suckered by the great scare campaign last time and proved how racist they are the time before.
I applaud the ALP for not mentioning the dead soldiers during the campaign especially when one died the day before the election.NOT 1 WORD for political gain .
KEVIN KRYPTONITE takes down THE MAN OF STEEL and the way this country in percieved elsewhere and the hopefully its morals become more positive from today

Hmm....... lets see whether your so enthusiastic in three years time? The ALP likes to suggest that they have a mortgage on morality. In the 1970s that great statesman Whitlam turned a blind eye for Suharto to invade East Timor, successive governments Liberal and Labor didn't have the guts to do anything about it, Evans the last Labor foreign minister was so far up Suharto's arse, fully supported by the pommie hating Keating. At least Howard has gone some way to atone for this shameful period in our history. So lets just wait and see whether Kevin becomes St Kevin.

[redden whites]

What by invading Iraq?