komninos
I don't know, they probably would have - but if we go back to
Keating's Redfern speech in 1995, there's a full-on apology to the
Aboriginal people, from the perspective of "we" who benefitted from
all the terrible things that happened as part of the colonial
project. But yes it seems to be always a case of tweedle dum and
dumber.
SKK
At 11:24 PM +1000 31/1/2001, komninos zervos wrote:
>Steve,
>do you believe labor would not have introduced a gst?
>do you believe we have real choice in political parties?
>don't preselection rorts in both parties engender mistrust in this
>so-called democracy?
>
>komninos
>
>
>At 10:42 PM 1/31/01 +1100, you wrote:
>>Ken
>>I really think you are crediting John Howard with far more
>>sophistication than he would claim for himself. Tax reform was the
>>only thing he could think to do, because it had been tried so many
>>times in other countries and the depths and heart needed for "vision"
>>and moral or ethical policy making need not be called upon - it's
>>only about the government making more money for itself and more
>>paperwork for everyone else. Though with all that extra tax revenue
>>you'd reckon they could afford to make decent reparation.
>>
>>
>>SKK
>>
>>
>>At 3:22 PM +1030 31/1/2001, Ken Bolton wrote:
>>>John Howard would typically attack the clarity of the language: tax reform
>>>meant only whast he intended to do, not alternative kinds of change. He'll
>>>wait till the nation will be appeased by his conversion to a word that no
>>>longer has any implication of reparation attached to it.
>>>
>>>KB
>>
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