Is Australia its own Worst Enemy?

[Worrals in the wilds]

there isn't a skerrick of naivete about Gillard - she knows exactly where she wishes to take this country, and that's to a place and a system of government that's anathema to me (and, I suspect, a majority of Australians who actually work for a living rather than sponge off 'the System' as a selected way of life).

I used to think that. I used to think there was a plan but these days...Dunno.

A serious socialist wouldn't have come up with the Malaysia solution, because the socialist answer would have been to lay out the on-shore Welcome mats to the brudders, whatever the administrative cost involved in separating the brudders from the bombers. A serious socialist wouldn't have considered doing a deal with the Libs, because they are The Opposition. A serious socialist may have stood for everything you stand against... but they would have stood for something. You may have hated and loathed what they stood for but it would have been a principle. These guys in the current federal ALP... To quote The Who, WTF are you? Do they have a moral position on ANYTHING? Or is it all about the polls? Now they're blaming the Opposition for disagreeing with them? That's what the Libs are supposed to do! They're the Opposition FFS!

This is a government who was so arrogant in its surety about offshore processing that it didn't even forumlate a backup plan in case the High Court Said No and both the Court and a lot of Artists Formerly Known as Labor Supporters said 'hang on a minute... the Malaysians? Don't they beat people with canes? How is that Labor? Maybe this is about swapping Buddhist Burmese for Moslem MEasters because the Aussie/ Malaysian public will go for that, being dopey hateful racists and all? Maybe this will solve publicity problems for the Malay and Aussie governments because people are too dumb to notice'? Just a Maybe.

I agree about Brown. I hate the federal ALP for doing business with the little sniveller and kowtowing to his every word. What was he going to do, form a Coalition with the Coalition? The only principle that's apparent is: Anything for power.