Tom CravenRudd Has More Substance Than You Can Handle
April 28th 2008 04:12
Commentators in this country of late have been championing the card of Kevin Rudd: The Man With No Substance. They argue that he is as plastic as the bumper stickers that bear his name and as shallow as Julie Bishop’s supporters, apparently he has no policy just a smile and some quiff gibberish about working families. People who have this opinion no doubt desire a return to the ‘Glory Day’s, the return to Howard; a man so out of touch he lost his own seat being only one of two PM’s in over a hundred years to do so.
In Howard’s first term as PM the only notable policy he introduced was gun laws (which was entirely circumstantial), partly selling Telstra (the fledging phone company) and trying to destroy Industrial Relations. None of these were important election promises, since Rudd has been in office for just under 200 days he has dismantled the idiotic WorkChoices, increased funding to non-government schools, signed Kyoto, said ‘Sorry’, started the process for a Republic, increased relationships with China and removed Troops from Iraq.Sounds like a lot, in fact more than Howard in a shorter time period. Rudd has delivered on his promises, his made the country more Labor which is what he intended and it’s what the Australian public voted for.
Rudd has substance, his ideas actually have an ideological standpoint something that Howard and Costello always lacked. Rudd introduces everything for a reason, the republic process, 2020, FuelWatch, Iraq and WorkChoices he is responding to the public, genuine need and his party’s ideals. Since when was that a bad thing?
In Howard’s first term as PM the only notable policy he introduced was gun laws (which was entirely circumstantial), partly selling Telstra (the fledging phone company) and trying to destroy Industrial Relations. None of these were important election promises, since Rudd has been in office for just under 200 days he has dismantled the idiotic WorkChoices, increased funding to non-government schools, signed Kyoto, said ‘Sorry’, started the process for a Republic, increased relationships with China and removed Troops from Iraq.Sounds like a lot, in fact more than Howard in a shorter time period. Rudd has delivered on his promises, his made the country more Labor which is what he intended and it’s what the Australian public voted for.
Rudd has substance, his ideas actually have an ideological standpoint something that Howard and Costello always lacked. Rudd introduces everything for a reason, the republic process, 2020, FuelWatch, Iraq and WorkChoices he is responding to the public, genuine need and his party’s ideals. Since when was that a bad thing?
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