Whilst the events of Super Tuesday and have broken the hearts of many conservative Republicans in the states, today was a good day for Aussie conservatives.
Two of our 'best and brightest' came out fighting and knew exactly where to hit the ALP, right in the private parts - their private dealings with the union movement that is.
The ALP is selling out the Australian public and ruining the Aussie economy by stealth. It is handing special treatment to their paymasters in the union movement at the expense of everyone else (85% of the workforce).
The two people who came out fighting were Turnbull, writing in the OZ , and Bishop.
Turnbull's piece did not pull any punches. It accused Labor of not only lying through their back teeth in trying to spin the current inflationary pressures as Howard's fault, but in doing so for the benefit of the unions. We all know it's thanks to Howard's IR deregulation that inflation is as low as it is, and we all know what Rudd and Swan plan to do with IR. Quoting...
There is no question that an increase in labour market regulation and union influence will, in a tight labour market, add to inflationary pressures. Is Rudd's and Swan's misrepresentation of our economic history a ham-fisted attempt to convince the Australian people that higher interest rates caused by a Labor-induced wages breakout are in fact due to the previous government?
This wage breakout it yet to come so the ALP is talking up inflation now, whilst it is still low, so that when inflation does go through the roof we either wont notice, or we'll think it all started with Howard. They are trying the same inflation bogey man trick in order to prepare us for tax increases they said would not happen, as i've mentioned before.
This is the first time i've heard any Liberal polly since the election really stick it to the labor party and accuse them openly of misleading the public for the benefit of the unions. My only problem is that the attack is mainly aimed at Swan, not Rudd. I guess he had to tone it down to get it published in the lick-spittle Rudd rag that the OZ has become.
In tandem with this piece Julie Bishop has announced that although WorkChoices may be dead according to Nelson, its reforming spirit lives on. I can't find the article but I read it this morning. Julie has used the ALP's own mandate rhetoric against them. It seems AWA's and other forms of non-union individual employment agreements were in place prior to the 2004 election and are therefore mandated by the electorate. Bishop says the Liberals will support the repeal of legislation that will bring us back to a pre-workchoices position, but will not condone the huge step back to the time of the union dinosaurs that the ALP has planned. For Labor to claim that was mandated is just more opportunistic spin.
As Howard said unions have a legit place in Aussie IR, but union control of the whole economy is not to the benefit of the whole country. Exposing the ALP as the union movement's PR devision must be part of the way forward LIbs. The ALP needs to level with the Australian public and they should start by admitting this.
Votes obtained by smoke, mirrors and spin do not constitute a mandate. The ALP should do right by the people that voted for them, not by their back-scratching mates.
We in the Liberal party need to position ourselves more firmly as anti-corruption crusaders like Big Ted Baileau is doing in Vic. That means we need to take on dodgy deals by business people and union bosses alike.
Firm but fair.
We're the good guys and dont you forget it.
