Author: Kev

I note some of the media are all about what a modern man Rudd is telling Australia he believes women have the right to be independent beings, not just appendages to “middle-aged men” Yeah, well so do most of us but back to the issue at hand….please explain. I really don’t believe Mrs Rudd with her multimillion dollar company Ingeus is any more an ogre than Mrs Doolan, the part owner of the Lilac City Motor Inn in north Goulburn, but if Julia Gillard is going to attack small business then she better be sure she’s not throwing stones from inside a glasshouse. As Tony Abbot said this morning if it was the other way round there would be a wildfire. With a bit of luck the incident will stop the ALP scouring the country looking for a small business owner who has made some error in application of the IR Laws and then rattling on all day in the House and media about the evils of a system that is actually lifting our production and lowering unemployment. Rudd may have tried to get the woman’s vote by coming across as an understanding guy but he fails with this;

…Rudd has conceded his wife may have to sell part of her $175 million business empire after Labor’s industrial relations attack was undermined by revelations her company had underpaid workers.

I wouldn’t go that far and besides while the company exists we conservatives can keep it under the microscope to ensure the ALP practice what they preach. Overall, the more we look into the ALP Policy Account the lower the balance.

While the ACTU/ALP are busy digging up unfair conditions in the workplace and compressing them into bricks to throw at Howard is it fair to bring this up? A COMPANY owned by the wife of Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd put workers on individual contracts that stripped them of key award conditions. I reckon it is.

Former Liberal prime minister Robert Menzies, in a letter to the NSW Liberal premier Robert Askin, on August 24, 1973:

LABOR needs no public relations men so long as it has the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

A good call….the electorate needs to be frightened into realitiy. If the polls are any indication then the voters are either not thinking it through or have simply been scammed. Rudd has got his polls in the cheapest manner possibly….no new policies to speak of other than the unions get back in power. I still believe that come polling day the voters will rethink their acceptance of the new kid on the block. He’s new and glib but should we really trust him with the keys to the treasury? And why shouldn’t Howard counter the ACTU/ALP advertising so full of half truths and isolated single incidences that try and prove a trend. There are people out there who may actually believe the ACTU adds that fly in the face of contrary evidence and Howard needs to counter that and educate the voters about the realities of the IR laws. Rudd is busy convincing the electorate that Australia’s booming economy is due soley to the mineral boom and has nothing to do with economic management. Rubbish! It has everything to do with economic management and a lot to do with the IR Laws that allowed the big companies to be competitive in the world economy. Going backwards to Union control will quickly prove the case as the emphasis shifts from production and a happy workforce to central control of wages and conditions; union power plays and strikes over inconsequential matters. Shake up the troops John. The MPs and electorate need to face reality…make the wrong call on polling day and the country will stall.

THOUSANDS of litres of water lost every year through leaky pipes and crumbing infrastructure will be targeted under Kevin Rudd’s water plan. So talk to the state Labour governments, it’s their problem to fix but then so is water storage and look how Queensland has managed that. Can’t go for new dams when you want the greenie vote so for over a decade nothing gets done and we are about to be drinking muddy bottom water. Rudd’s answer to the water problem is to open the bandaide package and apply liberally. He devines that the water crisis can be fixed by bandaiding pipes and signing Kyoto – could I suggest build more dams and wait for the droubt to end would be more practical. Solar energy? Still has a way to go yet. People I know solar powered their homestead at the cost of $72,000 and it still doesn’t handle the load. Putting money into solar power and clean coal research is fine; addressing climate change and producing a cleaner and leaner ecology is necessary but these options are all long term plans and we need an answer now. I seem to recall, a few years ago when Howard started the campaign on education he mentioned trade training and the ALP went on ad nauseum about how Howard was kicking kids out of school at fifteen and denying them a uni degree. A few years late but now they agree it’s necessary…good. I note one of Kevin’s three core challenges is making sure ‘fair go’ has a future and not just a past. If you substitute ‘Unions’ for ‘fair go’ I think you’ll get his drift. All in all, a sermon of platitudes. The true believers and the left will love it but I don’t see it stamping the ALP as a reasonable alternative. Honeymooon turning to roller coaster soon.