Australia votes

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Keith Webb
Not that I'm particularly partisan about these things, but we go to the polls today and the indications are the current Liberal government (remember Liberal in Australia means conservative,Tory, right-wing) is likely to be replaced by a Labor (yes, that's how they spell it here) government. Although they are similar in many ways and the Labor leader Kevin Rudd can only ape every move the Liberals have made this party is fundamentally similar to what the Canadians rather confusingly call the 'Liberals', ie left-wing socialists.

Since neither of the two major parties have released any policy whatsoever regarding the future preservation, restoration, operation or even recognition of CMPs I fear Australians will just have to vote with their conscience on this one.

I would have voted for whichever party had promised to abolish registration and roadworthiness requirements for these icons of this country, and paid us to display them on our highways and byways. So much for the billions of pork barreling!

Keith:

I've been trying to follow whatever news our Canadian press picks up about your election.

From what's been reported here, Howard stands to fall on the environment issue.

Too bad...IIRC he's been your PM for 11 years and has held his own seat for 34 years...so now he'll probably get shot down by by whimpering, hand-wringing, politically correct lefties on an issue which no human being can have any control over.

Maybe our PM has a bit of the smarts in not going along with the environmental issues which were just discussed in, where?, Uganda?