It is intersting that the Nats publish an aviation policy when they know there is no hope of it ever getting coalition support. The Nats will never govern in their own right so - any policy document is just spin.
Why did the Australian people vote Labor?
1. AWAs simply bad IR policy. If the reforms planned for 2009 had gone through we would have been no better off than before the 8 hour day ruling. That was the crux of the policy - no worker empowerment at all.
2. Howard and Costello were ruling Australia very firmly as a duocracy. It was irrelevant what or why the people wanted change, they knew better and refused to listen to public opinion.
Whether it was better for Labor or Liberal to be in power during the GFC, well maybe Australia coming out of the GFC much earlier than anywhere else was fuelled by minerals and those companies that are raping Australia, but some of the credit goes to a party unfettered by 1960s thinking.
Tin hat on, foxhole dug!