Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 24^th, 2017 at 11:23am:



what a load of rubbish



apart from coal and ore, demand for almost all of our export goods crashed. The only reason we didn't feel it more was because of the STIMULUS, which even liberals were proposing. the only difference was where the stimulus was going to be spent

you idiots need to stop living a lie.

macman wrote on Nov 24^th, 2017 at 11:17am:


While Whitlam did bring needed infrastructure projects to the country, he also introduced a series of policies that raised government spending faster than what they could get back in revenue. Not surprisingly, this lead to his government being unable to guarantee supply, which lead to his dismissal in November 1975 and his loss in December 1975. It obviously had an effect on people at the time if he wasn't re-elected in 1977. I can understand why people had such a harsh attitude towards Fraser but he did enact many polices that Whitlam was planning to anyway and left others in place.

As to the comment of "a long line of losers", you either have to be a die-hard leftist or lack a proper knowledge of history to to have little appreciation for the policies that the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments enacted over their combined 24 years. By the late 1970's, there were numerous predictions that Australia would digress into a Third World nation by the year 2000, which is the reason why some foreign companies such as IBM decided to set up factories here. The fact that double digit inflation had been common during the decade and interest rates had exceeded 20% by the late 1970's added fuel to the fire of the predictions. The economic polices of Hawke, Keating and Howard were all necessary to bring Australia into the 21st century. We were never going to make it as a protectionist hovel with an awakening Asian economy on our doorstep.

philperth2010 wrote on Nov 24^th, 2017 at 1:06pm:


Paid off ALP debt, lowered interest rates, lowered unemployment, stopped the boats (and drownings), reformed tax system, lowered individual workers tax, improved Medicare, stopped gun massacres, banking reforms that helped protect us from GFC among other economic policies. I could go on and on. What has Labor done since?

the only real reforms Howard did that are off any note, in 14 years in govt, was the introduction of the GST, and the juries still out on whether that was good or bad, and the gun reform. Everything else he screwed.

juliar wrote on Nov 24^th, 2017 at 4:51pm:

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Nov 24^th, 2017 at 6:32pm:

John Howard was a c word and this whole country knows it!