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Sunday, October 10, 2004

Where did Labor go wrong this time?

1. Mark Latham is unknown, and unpredictable. Better the devil you know than the one you don't.

2. Mark Latham overestimated the intelligence of the general public by not running a negative campaign to counter-act the bullshit about the economy that the Liberals were spreading. Paul Keating saw a larger drop in interest rates under his helm than what John Howard has. The government of the time has very little to do with interests rates and has very little affect and/or effect on them as long as they continue with well informed policies - it would take a major change of government, such as, bringing in a ruthless dictator, or adopting crazy ideas such as aligning our currency with another countries, or causing civil war or other major revolutionary situations before a government will cause any significant affect and/or effect on interest rates.

3. Labor's strong points of education, defense, workers, environment and healthcare are missing some punch.

Most people realise that education and healthcare are more a matter of the states than the federal government - this is shown by most states being in Labor governments at the moment and people showing they are more than willing to vote Labor in the state and Liberal in the nation.

Defense was not pushed enough by Labor as being their strong-point. They set up most of our alliances and treaties. Labor effectively created our Defense Force - something that has gone into disrepair since the Liberal Coalition has been in power. Our region is much more Australia-friendly with a Labor government than it is with a Liberal government - this has been well documented.

The workers and the environment this time clashed - causing concerns for Labor - this was due to the late introduction of the Tasmanian logging issue. Had people had more time to digest this they would have realised, that, unlike the Liberal alternative, the Labor version at least recognised that there will be job losses and that alternative means of finding employment and retraining will be needed - the loggers believed the Liberal smoke and mirrors job. The Liberals are very good at creating negative advertising campaigns and turning grey areas into black and white - "jobs" or "environment" when the truth is that the Tasmanian timber industry is not sustainable economically, or environmentally, therefore, there are no jobs unless major changes are made. This was an issue that was not pushed heavily enough by Labor and not introduced early enough by Labor.

4. Labor did not respond to the criticisms of the Liberal party earlier in the campaign.

5. If it aint overly broke - we don't need to overly fix it.
Most people have nothing to do with the education system, healthcare, defense, employment, etc etc etc, so don't have a clue what is going on in Australia. Most people don't realise that Australia's education system is in shambles and this once proudly education society is losing students to Asia rather than the reverse trend which used to happen. The foreign students that are educated in Australia - are not the bright students hoping for the best education in the region, they are, more often than not, the stupid rich kids of the rich, who, are buying their ways into a university system because their homeland will not accept them. The education system here is in dire need of shake up - we are falling behind.

People don't realise that the environment is an important economical issue. If we continue to ignore the problems that polluting the environment cause, rather than, finding cleaner more efficient solutions, we will lose the leading market edge that being the first to come out with such solutions brings to a country. If we, for instance, found a clean reliable energy source, we could export this invention to the world and reap benefits from said technology for years to come, however, if we ignore the problem we lose all the investment opportunities, etc etc - it is bad economics to rest on your laurels and stick with the status quo.

Back in the 1970's they started creating malls everywhere in Australia - no one wanted them - no one knew what they were - but the marketers and businessmen created them anyways. This revolutionised shopping as we know it. We need to do the same with environmentally friendly and efficient technologies. Make people realise they need them and that they will lead us into the future forefront of leading the world. It seems we have long lost that pioneering spirit that gave us a knack for creating something out of nothing and being world leaders in anything - what the fuck stole that? Why the fuck are we so apathetic and merely followers?
Posted by: Adam / 10:01 am
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