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though ofc imperfect, #hawke & #keating energetically pushed back on many ghastly liebs & nuts policy pronouncements & rhetoric, & vigorously engaged in public debate to try to inform & educate the citizenry of appropriate policy concepts & rationales. even when i disagreed with some of their policy directions, i admired this trait. now, all these decades later, in sharp contrast we have a jellyback who actively abandons principle & heads off the the right, ie, the wrong, more or less like a rat up a drainpipe... a labor rat.

#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #PHONkedinthehead

Today in History, December 12: Australian dollar floated amid financial chaos

It was a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, forever changing the way we were governed and the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #1983 #AU #AUD #Australia #dollar #floating #Keating #todayinhistory #usd
https://www.newsbeep.com/304081/

Graham Richardson, former Labor powerbroker, dies aged 76

Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson has died aged 76. The former politician died at 3.50am on Saturday after weeks…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #BobHawke #grahamrichardson #grahamrichardsondead #Keating #Labor #nsw #richo #Surgery
https://www.newsbeep.com/236028/

I read the following article with horror.  How many kids dreams do you people want to kill? Worst, you are suggesting freeing up copywriter for your technology gods and stealing even the smallest achievements arts students acquire

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/08/09/why-labor-stalling-real-universities-funding-reform?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20week%20in%20politics%20-%20August%2016%202025&utm_content=The%20week%20in%20politics%20-%20August%2016%202025+CID_4e42950f14a377ca08c67e3c6f74ef1e&utm_source=EDM&utm_term=Read%20more&cid=4e42950f14a377ca08c67e3c6f74ef1e

I’m of the same generation as #Albanese and #Morrison and I have lived a wonderful life. That #Keating took away the free education dream of Whitlam after being given it himself shall go down in history as the beginning of bastardry of Labor but then to get to this point in time in which the future of our kids are being destroyed by anti social ideology and the trickle down BS embraced by #Labor and still in place even though you give lip service to the understanding it doesn’t work and never has.  Lip service is pretty much all labor is good at these days.

Your hypocracy in which you say one thing and then blatantly do another, another wonderful attribute all you labor bench warmers embrace, says your days are numbered in #Fremantle and i will cheer when you fail to win your seat at the next election.

I have never been more disgusted by the uselessness of both major parties in managing our economy and the future of our children. Graft is king these days in our federal government…maybe i have always been mislead and it was always the way.

Yours sincerely

News that the #USA is undertaking a review of #AUKUS has drawn out former Prime Minister Paul #Keating to say what we all know:

‘The Albanese government had the chance to undertake a review in its own terms when first elected to office in May 2022, but denied itself the opportunity for fear of being seen as dodgy on the alliance. Now President Trump’s Pentagon, as it is entitled to do, is subjecting the deal to the kind of scrutiny that should have been applied to AUKUS in the first instance.

The review makes clear that America keeps its national interests uppermost. But the concomitant question is: why has Australia failed to do the same?

In any case, the calling of the Pentagon review should be the catalyst for the government to get on with the job of forging a relevant, distinctly Australian path for the country’s national security, rather than being dragged along on the coat tails of a fading Atlantic empire.’

We all knew we would never see those #submarines and we should never have betrayed the #French

#Auspol

We Should Be So Lucky: Why the Australian Way Works

https://insidestory.org.au/the-improvisers/

(Yet) Another analysis of why Australia has not disappeared in a froth of beer fueled cynical lazy mismanagement ... or ... ?

This is an interesting , informative and *informed* "assay " of a book by expat Andrew Low.

Yes, it/they does/do reference the frayed Lucky Country "meme" made prominent by that Don Horne bloke.

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... Australia is not compelled to follow the American lead any more than it is compelled to follow a Chinese lead. ... they are wise words.

Australians may not be good long-term planners, he observes, but they are good improvisers. Being adaptable, Low thinks, is better than being visionary.

Adaptable is what we need to be.
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Yep :)

Mostly makes good sense to this decaying lump of post sheep meat .

#Auspol #Australia #LuckyCountry
#Hawke #Keating #Conservatism
#Society #Economy #Polity #Voting

#Auspol #NeoLiberalism #Hawke #Keating

@onekind has drawn my attention to a book by Liz Humphrys — How Labour Built NeoLiberalism … not having read the book yet, did find an interview with the author in Jacobin… an interesting snippet

<The other thing to remember is that prior to the Accord, the last time the ALP had been in government was under Gough Whitlam. His government found itself in the middle of an economic crisis. Since then, the Right has always accused Labor of being poor financial managers who can’t be trusted to run the country’s finances.

The Hawke–Keating period, on the other hand, is held up as one of the most successful periods of economic restructuring. The ALP relies on the success of that period to argue publicly that it is fit for government. That creates a problem for trade union leaders. They don’t want to disagree with this argument publicly, even if they think the Accord was a massive setback for the labor movement. Even people who were critical of the Accord feel compelled to say nothing in public or even to defend it.>

https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-labor-party-neoliberalism-accord