Australia - A New Leaf
The king of the woooorld
I realised I forgot to post an update the other day after the fiasco of fighting the London Transport system to get to Australia House to vote only to work out we’d forgotten our Australian Passports. I mentioned that at that the time it was almost a landslide victory to the Australian Labor Party and Kevin Rudd, its leader, well soon after this was official, and if you haven’t heard already (I wouldn’t be surprised, its not exactly world news, though I did see it in small print in the free morning paper), Kevin Rudd is the new Prime Minister of Australia, at least for the next few years anyway.
As I’ve said before, I’m not a very political person, and I shouldn’t push my point of view (as I don’t really have one), but since coming into power Mr Rudd has made some very interesting statements that will no doubt have a huge impact on Australia in the years to come. Once again, I’m not getting this information from reputable source, or even the Australian news, but tids and bits from family, friends, and London papers. Since coming into power, he’s:
- committed to signing the Kyoto Protocol , and get Australia on track for reduced Carbon Emissions
- said “Sorry” to the Australian Aborigines for past atrocities such as the 1960’s White Australia Policy
- committed to pull an increasing amount of troops out of Iraq
- talked about the scrapping of the Work Choices legislation (apparently the most unpopular government legislation passed in the history of Australia)
Now, I was thinking, what a way to come in, make sweeping changes, and completely reverse pretty much every unpopular policy from the previous opposition. I don’t think there’s a better way to rock the boat, and get all the fans and neutral voters alike, on side. It’s like the rich kid at a high school throwing around beer or $50 notes or something. Interesting stuff.
And now back to my apathetic pedestal in the clouds.
Tags: politics
November 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am
wait a second, he hasn’t done any of those things yet!
they’re election promises, which means they may or may not actually happen. He’s been pretty quiet on iraq recently as well.
He got caught out last week that there may be some tricky language in the “apology” thing as well, and it might not actually include the word sorry.
November 28th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Aye, I knew it wasn’t a good idea doing of third party knowledge, like Chinese Whispers, writing content with no references or anything factual, often never works
January 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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