Citizens, there are two days left on the campaign trail. And if you have not made up your mind as yet I urge you to listen to the inner voice of reason and VOTE LABOR.
Yes more than ever this is a conscience vote, do you want to return to the dark ages personified by the Mad Monk and his gang of Neo Con(artists) Look at how the Liberals have played wedge politics with the boat people. Social divisiveness at its best. The boat people are today’s red menace of the 1950′s or the Communist yellow peril of the 1960′s. Either way its a case of a bankrupt ideology stalking the corridors of Australian social life.
For me as an individual, the issue which all Australian should seriously think on is that under John Howard the Australian house was turned from a home into a line of credit.
The question is who is going to pay for it. Our children? Not at today’s market price.
Owning a home is not a dream, its part of a practical, stabilised existence. If you own your own home you have a sense of security of psychological well being. A sense of place, of belonging. Fixed home ownership is the foundation for building communities. Building communities is a way to build socially stable democracy and ensure the future well being our nation.
But under the previous Liberal administration all that changed. Currently Australian house prices are on average 40% over valued. Well and good for some but what about those who are seeking to enter the market.
The young have been exiled to become renters who are there to be exploited by investors all in the name of profit. Simple but true.
And looming over this is the question of when the housing bubble does burst what will its consequences be to the Australian economy and society.
I was bought up in the Labor tradition of egalitarianism and a fair go for all. Under the Howard Administration all that changed. The dictates of the market became the dominant social currency.
And then of course there was the GFC and the fact Rudd Labor government kept Australia out of recession. Do not forget that forget that Kevin Rudd destroyed John Howard, only the second Australian PM to lose his seat and the election. That fact is history. The election of Labor in 2007 offered a ray of hope for the future. Let us not reenter the darkness of the past.
I believe that Julia Gillard is still the embodiment of that hope for a better future. There are many issues why one should vote Labor, but as a citizen I appeal to the social conscience of other citizens, “Do not throw the future into the black hole of the past.” Tony Abbott is yesterdays man with yesterday ideas.
Citizens the future is in your hands use your vote wisely.
