The common (mis)conception is that the Coallition are fantastic at running the economy. A myth Howard and Costello are more than happy to keep pushing
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At least the media isn't blindly following the directions of Howard's spin agency any more. I'm sure we'll start to hear a lot more about his failings.
It's sad though, that the only reason Rudd is receiving so much attention is that the media want a close race to sell more product...
I think the actual cost is beside the point - Howard spent more money digging his brother out of a financial black hole than he has on his chairs
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I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about the chairs for the House of Representives. They were replaced a year or so ago I believe (although, I might have that wrong - my memory is a little fuzzy).
I wasn't meaning to attack your point (dispite having done that - sorry once again). I completely agree that over the past 11 years of Howard's government the moral degredation of the average politician has increased. I'm more frustrated at the stupidity of this situation. Howard has done some really genuinly crap things, yet the average Australian seems to care so much more about things like these chairs. It's heaps easier to sell newspapers that talk about the cost of chairs, but real issues like education, health, and social inequality, get passing nods. People should care infinately more that John Howard send us to war in Iraq dispite massive public opposition than how much more comfortable his arse is than ours.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on your point there. It's a shame that a point as small as a set of chairs gets people's blood boiling, when Howard has made himself the first PM to ever send our troops into a war where we were the agressor.
I heard a great point someone in American media made. There was such an outpouring of grief for the 32 students and teachers killed in the latest mass shooting over there, however more than 30 American troops die each week in Iraq.
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At least the media isn't blindly following the directions of Howard's spin agency any more. I'm sure we'll start to hear a lot more about his failings.
It's sad though, that the only reason Rudd is receiving so much attention is that the media want a close race to sell more product...
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I wasn't meaning to attack your point (dispite having done that - sorry once again). I completely agree that over the past 11 years of Howard's government the moral degredation of the average politician has increased. I'm more frustrated at the stupidity of this situation. Howard has done some really genuinly crap things, yet the average Australian seems to care so much more about things like these chairs. It's heaps easier to sell newspapers that talk about the cost of chairs, but real issues like education, health, and social inequality, get passing nods. People should care infinately more that John Howard send us to war in Iraq dispite massive public opposition than how much more comfortable his arse is than ours.
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I heard a great point someone in American media made. There was such an outpouring of grief for the 32 students and teachers killed in the latest mass shooting over there, however more than 30 American troops die each week in Iraq.
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