that children under 15 will get into this year\'s Perth Royal Show for free, funded by taxpayers.
There is going to be a tax backlash in Australia sometime soon. Politicians are treating tax-payer money as electoral bribes more openly and nakedly than I can recall in the past. In bigger numbers too. Howard and Latham have been competing over how much money they can spend. Yay for small-government.
The first has Kim Beazley talking about how much he cares about Western Australia and how important state issues are to him and Mark Latham.
Yeh, state issues as long as it is the Federal government making the decisions and funding it. It was the Labor party that have done the most trampling on states rights and respsonsibilities. Curtin was the one that got the feds first bite at the income tax so states lost that revenue. Whitlam also had a constitutional policy of \"crash through or crash\".
Howard has been equally as bad, his $6 billion schools policy where parents and teachers can get money directly from the federal government has put the states on notice that the feds will be taking education from them soon. It is part of the anti-federalism that Canberra has adopted as orthodox policy.
One has Howard promising to be strong in protecting Australia, including the new air warfare destroyers.
This is totally at odds with reality. Howard has defrayed Australian capability and long-term structurally he will leave Australia less capable of defending its geographically vulnerable areas. The loss of the F111 will mean a drop in projection power, and nothing is replacing it at this stage.
In the 1930\'s Scullin and Menzies left Australia in a similar state with a Navy that was not independent and poorly equipped. It was disastrous, it left Australia open in 1941/1942. it was the USN that bailed us out of that one. Howard is putting Australia in the same position with structural inequities that could last as long as 40 years.
It leaves Australia vulnerable and is poor defence policy. I dont think Howard understands defence policy.
Cam, is there any way to get diaries linked from the front page?
What do you mean? The diaries box that used to be on the left hand side? Diaries get dumped to front page now along with articles. So if you enter by the front page you will a mix of diaries and articles.
I will add a diaries box under the articles box on the right hand side (under user menu and poll). \\
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