bambbbam2
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I am a usual Liberal vote that voted labor. I will explain my reasons:
1. I grew tired of the secrecy and downright nastiness of the howard government. Look at something like Haneef.. the govt lied to the court, used the AFP as a political tool, shafted over the judiciary when it didn't get it's own way etc etc.. this was just one of many things. Surprisingly, Barry Jones put it best when he said "[SIZE=-1]And if you take a dissenting view, you're either marginalised, trivialised or trashed. "
John Howard came to power on a promise of accountability. That worked great, about 5 of them lost their jobs because of dubious accounting methods and expense claims. That was until too many were lost, then Howard came up with this rubbish "non-core promise". He then stacked the high court with extreme right wingers and it was downhill from there.
2. Howard and Costello have been the best economic managers this country has ever had. No doubt about it. However, a lot of the good fortune was based on the freeing-up of the economy that Keating started and Howard continued. However, the economy is only one part of a society - and an A here wasn't enough to make up for the F in other areas (like FOI)
3. The whole liberal campaign was simply based on badmouthing the past. I never saw one thing from Howard where he actually talked about his vision for the future. Who cares what interest rates were under Whitlam? If you suffered them then, you must be incredibly unlucky to even still have a mortgage.
4. Howard became increasingly arrogant in the last few years. He really should have left about 12-18 months ago, to give Costello a chance. Instead, he shafted him and treated the public like dirt by telling them "well i'll only stay around a little while" and forcing them to another by-election. Keating had it right when he said "costello is great at attacking the opposing side, but he really should be focussing on Howard" (i'm paraphrasing there)
So in the end, yes the economy is going great but that is it - and that doesn't make up for the loss of my civil liberties and everything else.
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1. I grew tired of the secrecy and downright nastiness of the howard government. Look at something like Haneef.. the govt lied to the court, used the AFP as a political tool, shafted over the judiciary when it didn't get it's own way etc etc.. this was just one of many things. Surprisingly, Barry Jones put it best when he said "[SIZE=-1]And if you take a dissenting view, you're either marginalised, trivialised or trashed. "
John Howard came to power on a promise of accountability. That worked great, about 5 of them lost their jobs because of dubious accounting methods and expense claims. That was until too many were lost, then Howard came up with this rubbish "non-core promise". He then stacked the high court with extreme right wingers and it was downhill from there.
2. Howard and Costello have been the best economic managers this country has ever had. No doubt about it. However, a lot of the good fortune was based on the freeing-up of the economy that Keating started and Howard continued. However, the economy is only one part of a society - and an A here wasn't enough to make up for the F in other areas (like FOI)
3. The whole liberal campaign was simply based on badmouthing the past. I never saw one thing from Howard where he actually talked about his vision for the future. Who cares what interest rates were under Whitlam? If you suffered them then, you must be incredibly unlucky to even still have a mortgage.
4. Howard became increasingly arrogant in the last few years. He really should have left about 12-18 months ago, to give Costello a chance. Instead, he shafted him and treated the public like dirt by telling them "well i'll only stay around a little while" and forcing them to another by-election. Keating had it right when he said "costello is great at attacking the opposing side, but he really should be focussing on Howard" (i'm paraphrasing there)
So in the end, yes the economy is going great but that is it - and that doesn't make up for the loss of my civil liberties and everything else.
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