Comments on: Where’s Hawke or Keating in the current Government. http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/ Australian Libertarian Society Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Clinton Gale http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-51051 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:24:55 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-51051 That would be tiptop if the Libs did do all those things, Jacob.
The problem is getting elected on radical ideas. Rudd proved, and Obarma is proving it, people LOVE ambiguous drivel. Stuff that sounds good to the ear but has no real substance is what wins vote. The best hope we have is Rudd arse-ing it up to the point where people think and demand better from their public servants.

]]> By: Jacob Steelman http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-51050 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:26:26 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-51050 While it may be true that the Rudd government plans to cut taxes what it gives up it gets back with its planned carbon tax to be introduced after the next national election. The Prime Minister sees himself as international diplomat while the world sees him as a clown making pronouncements on world policy on behalf of a nation of 22 million people. Like a scene out of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in the backroom the labor union bosses decide with their ALP power brokers how the country will be run for the benefit of the labor union bosses and the ALP power brokers. This should be a void into which the Liberal Party could extend itself if it could decide what it wants to be when it grows up. The Liberal Party should take a radical step and become a strong advocate for classical liberal philosophy – individual freedom, free markets, free trade, freedom for employees and employers to contract for terms of employment, asset backed currency, abolishment of the the Reserve Bank, reduction in taxes and no new taxes, elimination of government regulation, strong private property rights, no climate change laws, no government sponsored or supported cartels just to provide a few ideas to the Liberal Party.

]]> By: Jarrah Job http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50881 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:51:50 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50881 Yes, dear Andrea.

]]> By: Jarrah Job http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50880 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:25:31 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50880 moderated again :

Jarrah, will you please stick to the thread.

]]> By: Jarrah Job http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50879 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:03:13 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50879 Hey, my last line WAS on topic.

But anyway: Anyone read the tax reform discussion paper?

]]> By: Jarrah Job http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50877 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:18:49 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50877 moderated out

sorry, lets stick to the topic, Jarrah, as I asked. Not interested in continuing this. Feel free to ask to start a thread on that if you really want to talk about it.

]]> By: jc http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50876 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:22 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50876 let’s stick to the thread please. Enough about having sex/kids.

]]> By: TerjeP (say tay-a) http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50874 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:21:54 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50874 Funk,

Your childhood attraction to every girl that had boobs isn’t the issue. Sex with a 15 year old does not automatically make you a paedophile even if it is against the law. A 15 year old is not generally prepubescent. And the status of the law was not what was in question but rather the status of public opinion. The public is right to have a low regard for those that rape young children. Where crowds have gathered to protest about a paedophile being in residence it is not about 17 year old kids that had sex with 15 year old kids.

]]> By: Tim R http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50851 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:44:26 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50851 I wrote a critique of the Rudd’s speech, (via the Australian) because it pissed me off so much.
If anyone is interested:
http://robits.wordpress.com/

]]> By: Yobbo http://blog.libertarian.org.au/2008/08/05/where%e2%80%99s-hawke-or-keating-in-the-current-government/#comment-50845 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:43:33 +0000 http://alsblog.wordpress.com/?p=888#comment-50845 There was a widely publicised case here in Perth not long ago when 2 13 year old girls (from an exclusive private school) made a lesbian video and sold it to some boys they knew for $5. The boys then showed it to all the other kids in their school.

The kids who watched that video probably got away with it. But what if they showed it to their 18 year old brother? He’d be a paedophile. It’s unjust and unnecessary.

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