Perils of Liberalist Politics of Australia
Australia is governed by the two party system witha bi-cameral Parliament(House of Representatives & the Senate). Instead of a President, Australia has the Govenor General who represents the British Monachy whose only role in modern Australia is to rubber stamp laws passed by the Parliament and attend fundraisers and, to oversee the disolution of Parliament and formation of new governments come election time.
The somewhat Conservative City Party is called the 'Liberal Party' which consists of people from economic puritans, over to the centre left who like to call themselves 'moderates'. Their centre left are represented by people such as; former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Senator. Marise Payne who has pushed for the lowering of age for sex to the age of 14, while heterosexuals must remain at 16. To me this sounds like a free licence to adults to lure children into sex. Their Conservatives are a mixed bunch including; former Prime Minister John Howard, Peter Costello and Tony Abbott.
Their Coalition party is the Nationals(formely, Country Party) who are a Rural/Regional bases political party with Conservative Social Values. Economically speaking, they are a mix of liberalists and agragrian socialists.
On the opposite side is the Australian Labor Party(ALP) which was formed as the political wing of the Union Movement. They are connected to each other through their constitutions. They have a right wing faction(Unity) and a left wing faction. In middle is the centre left, centre right and so called non-aligned. The ALP was once a Socialist organisation which no longer exists. Instead, the ALP are 'economic conservatives' as their federal leader and Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd repeatedly informs the people through the media.
It is often wrongly said that the Liberal Party have sold out Australia with the privatisation of assets. In the real world, it was the Hawke/Keating Labor Governments which began the selling off the family jewels. At every election they promised not to sell these assets off while the Peacock/Howard Opposition promised to sell everything off.
Sold by the Hawke/Keating Government includes: QANTAS, Commonwealth. Of all federal government sell offs, the Howard Government's success was the selling of Telstra(communication carrier) which was not handled that well at all.
Amongst the state governments, once again nobody has sold more than Labor Governments. It is the QLD Labor Government who sold electricity commission(Energex) and has decided to sell off all of their stakes in Airports such as Mackay and Brisbane airports. While the deny it, all the signs of selling Queensland Rail is visible as the mantra of the railway management and such has rapidly change to sell its image.
New South Wales Labor is going through the process to completely privatise electricity and despite their protests against private road tolls, they have extended this practice to other major road developments and even increased the pricing of these road tolls. This Labor led NSW Government under Bob Carr saw the removal of health services in rural Australia which made Howard's push for rural doctors a waste of money. No services, nothing for doctors to deliver. In one area of NSW for example, the doctor was no longer to even mend a broken limb or deliver a baby. To do so, would lead to criminal conviction.
The state of Victoria would be the only state where Labor did not get the opportunity as Liberal Premier, Jeff Kennett beat them to the fray to pay off the extreme debt which left the state so poor managed that a single wage of a public servant required an overseas loan.
In Queensland, the health system was redesigned at the hand of Kevin Rudd who is now the nation's Prime Minister. These changes made the health department top heavy where most financial funding never passed administration and medical services suffer for it.
Across the state in regional/rural Australia, emergency departments and labour wards have closed. One of Queensland major regional centres, Rockhampton, almost lost its emergency department in the months leading up to the most previous state election, only to finally find people to work there two months out of the election.
The Gladstone Hospital had to deal with Dr. Patel or otherwise known, 'Dr. Death' whose incompetence witnessed further injuries and in some cases, death. Queensland Labor ignored the pleas for help until the media opted to run with the story. This doctor was given a first class ticket to America and has botched every attempt to bring him back for a trial in court. My belief is they deliberately botched these attempts.
In Cairns(far northern Queensland), fire fighters have publicly aired their anger at having to fill the role of Ambulance Paramedic due to the lack of funding to keep the Ambulance service present. In the area of Bribie Island, there is no hospital and no Ambulance service at all. In the lead up to the previous Queensland state election, there was a story of a man at Bribie Island whose only medical attention available was by volunteer fire service. The closest emergency service being at Caboolture which is a minimum 40 minute drive away.
When Queensland Labor came to power in 1988, they inherited a state that was highly state owned and a healthy surplus. Today, majority of the state's assets have been or is about to be sold off and there is a lack of money available due to mismanagement and pure greed by a government that never asks its people for an opinion but gives it. They even threated local council Mayors with criminal convictions should they go ahead with local referendums on compulsory council amalgamations.
Next, I will write on the issue of immigration, multiculturalism and the back stabbing of Australians.
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