Lindommer; surely nothing can be worse than the crap NSW has had to put up with for years. It was all rolled up nicely when the moderate Brogden was rolled by the far right of his own party (Liberals) so that their far right (incompetent) puppet Debnam could be put into Opposition leader - and lo and behold, Labor run a huge smear campaign and one of the dirtiest elections ever, and win an unwinnable election. Both sides completely and miserably incompetent. Luckily we're not quite there yet at the federal level. There's no completely corrupt power brokers like Tripodi and Obeid pulling the strings federally yet.
Anyhoo, sorry for the digression. I am not a fan of the current Labor government. Rudd was a huge fuckup and I had no real problems with him being deposed. Rudd had issues on micromanagent and lack of consultation with his own party, not to mention everyone else, on too many issues. He had to go. Plus agree with Lindommer that the home insulation scheme and BER (and green loan scheme to a lesser extent) are major, major fuckups, despite them having a good mandate to run them as a stimulous measure. I don't have much faith that the Labor party are too competent (actually, I think they are pretty incompetent to be honest).
But I will hope they beat the other guys of Abbott and co. Abbott is a fundamentalist catholic who can't help but make moronic gaffes. He's too far right and just can not be positive or rarely honest. And don't get me started on "iron bar" Tuckey and the rest Lindommer. I know someone who worked for Ruddock when he was the Attorney General, and he had his lawyers writing speeches on why the church should be more involved in government, despite us being secular and the lawyers themselves being against it. Quality. Oh, and it's disgusting that Tuckey even became a politician, if you know how he got his nickname of "iron bar". Lindommer, and don't forget Mark Andrews in your list too.
Plus the interest rate lies from the Liberals really really shit me. Anyone who understands how and why the interest rates are set by the RBA knows that Hockey is lying directly to everyone with his statements, as Howard did before him.
I really want to vote for the "none of the above" box this election, but will probably put the right-wing parties last again this election. I'm one of the guys who numbered every fucking Senate box so I could have the satisfaction of putting the last number in that idiot Fred Nile's box.
What really irks me is the populist favourtism of politics in Australia. My major gripe is home prices - yet one of the issues that has bipartinship support is keeping house prices high. In a recent interview, Abbott said he doesn't want house prices coming down, in fact he saw a two bedroom apartment sell for $900k and thought it cheap. He believes that homeowners don't want to see prices come down and high house prices are better for the economy than a collapse. Which of course is true in the short term, but a complete and utter lie for the long term. The long term harm to the economy of FHBs spending 60%+ of their take home salary on servicing a mortgage is horrific - the spending people cut to pay interest to the banks will cause long term damage. NAB has been the one Australian bank to come and publicly admit it so far - hats off to them.
On the bright side, Glenn Stevens isn't too bad as far as reserve bank governers go. I mean, we could have Wall Street pandering morons like Bernanke and Geither here, but that's another issue entirely. Get ready for several more trillion of monetisation in the US as the double dip approaches. But I digress again...
Sorry for the rant