SH> rod, you really are for the status quo aren't you ...

I'm not actually. I was in favor of recognising that labor in
VIC had totally stuffed their chance at managing the state,
time to toss them in the bin and put in someone like Jeff Kennett
to put the broom thru the state and shake the shit out of it.

I was even in favor of making that very clear to the electorate
that that was what was going to be done. Then when they vote you
in they cant complain when you do that.

I felt the same way about SA and WA too.

I even felt that Joh had rorted the electoral system for far too
long and that it was time for a change. Tho he had certainly left
the states finances in a very solid and viable state, tho greatly
assisted in doing so by the subsidy that his state got on finances
from the big states. He did do some things well on his own initiative
tho, particularly the abolition of death duty stuff which forced the
rest of Aust to bin it eventually.

SH> you don't seem to have a revolutionary bone in your body do you?

Thats crap too, I think that what Jeff Kennett is doing is fine
by me. Particularly the public service side of the state needed
a massive shakeup, and the local government stuff too. Time was
ripe once labor had rooted the states finances, the public could
be convinced that massive changes were needed.

Corse on other more fundamental stuff like the country as a whole,
we have seen the last attempt at something radically different,
communism, go down the tubes in the most spectacular fashion. I
certainly dont think it makes any sense to be trying stuff like
that here, I happen to prefer our outcome by far.

Ditto for what VIC and SA tried under labor too for that matter,
whole new way of doing things, basically ruined the finances
of the state in the process, and ruined the personal financial
situation of a considerable number of people in the process too.

If you want to try another now say in the federal sphere, you are
welcome to think its the way to go, I wont be voting for it tho.
And neither will the rest of the country either OTW, they just had
a massive political manifest of radical change presented to them
and they thought it stank. The said 'no way', even tho the economy
was rooted. Which presumably means that they dont like that idea.

SH> Not thiking of standing for one of the parties are you?? |-)

Nope, cant think of anything more boring. In fact that IMO is the real
reason you dont get much in the way of decent politicians, the thought
of sitting on the benches listening to all that tripe year after year
must keep heaps out and cause brain damage in those it doesnt keep out.

One thing I would do on the revolutionary side is just abolish state
parliaments and upper houses too. Cant see the public voting for that
tho so its more than a tad academic right now.

--- PQWK202