looking at all the answers how many of you work for the ALP?

Answer 1

Lee:
I'd say most of these socialist clowns are either:

Labor cronies.
Union officials
Uni Communists
Labor staffers
Union staffers
Idiots
Scared unemployed who are afraid that they may need to work if Mr Howard gets back in.
Watermelons. (Green on the outside, Red on the inside)

NB: now watch the abuse that comes my way!! :)

RICHO: Well put! During the Whitlam campaign of 72, how to vote Labor cards were sent home with Kindergarden kids. They were taught to say "It's time" at the end of each session (recess, lunch and end of day). This is the sort of brainwashing that went on and goes on with the Union driven Labor Party (Teacher's Union). How do I know this? I was one of the kids involved.

Sometimes views from one extreme pushes others to the opposite extreme. I realise that I'm a party to this too!

BOBBIE W: Fair enough! But name calling? I think that Mr Howard has been called worse than "Labor Staffer" on this site! A..hole is one that springs to mind. It's the Labor (left wing, Union supporting, Socialists) that can dish it out, but find it extremely difficult to take! Yes, I realise that you haven't "name called" and your politeness proves that there is hope, hope that you'll return to the right side eventually. My hope is that it's before it's too late!

JACK: Can't get AJ and RH in Qld! Only get socialist announcers up here! Like JL. It's funny that you mention AJ and RH though! Doesn't the Advertising King for the Labor Party own the station that they work for, Singo? I know AJ owns a share too! Isn't it also the top rating station in Sydney?

Edit: How can anyone say that Labor is offering the better choice. Their policies are the same on every point except environment, where they've had to buckle to the Greens, to get their preferences. On the environment, the pulp mill in Tassie was approved by the State Gov't, run by hang on a sec it will come to me.... Oh Yeah LABOR! The Federal decision, implementing the strictest guidelines in the world, were FULLY supported by Garrett. Hang on, he belongs to........ Oh Yeah LABOR. Our projected targets for lowering emissions are ahead of Kyoto requirements and if signed, we'd have to lower our standards to meet Kyoto. WAKE UP!!

InSight: Your figures are wrong. Keating's interest rates never came below 10.25%. When John Howard came into power, they were still above 10%. By mid 1997, the rates came down to under 9%. The first time since the mid to late 60's. Again a Coalition Gov't. Interest rates of 6.75% are still at record 39 yr lows (see attachment below). It's people living beyond their means that has caused financial strain on them NOT Mr Howard's Gov't.
It's human greed and selfishness that leads a person into ruin. Live to your means and strive for better. Hell, I earn below the average wage, I have a disabled wife and I rent. Labor policies should help me, but they NEVER have! In fact, the Qld Labor Party has made it near impossible for me to manage. 1 income, increased costs to renters (water to be fully paid by renters, when it was part of the rental costs previously). Only I can get me out of my situation, not anything that the Gov't, any Gov't, can offer. They can only do what is right to the majority, not the minority. Only if we are greedy, would we expect otherwise.
WAKE UP AUSTRALIA! LABOR will ruin of this great Country. It is historical fact!

Answer 2

No, I have never been a member of the ALP although my brother was many years ago before he died. I have almost always been a union member, and active in two unions over the years. As for being a member of a political party, I was in a "left-wing" party from 1963 (when I turned 18) to 1971 when I left the party and I have never been a member of any other party.

I do have several friends who are ALP members, and one does have several senior policy and other roles within the ALP.

Answer 3

I don't belong to the ALP, but in this current mood, I am a supporter , i will be voting that way.
I also belong to a union. As a nurse it is the only way we have been able to get any wage increases.
Yes there are alot of ALP supporters out there, thank god!
I have been a voter for 30 years, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. Now I am seeing a party that has completely lost touch with Australian people. A party that has run it's race. A party that has lied to their own benefit.
Why, may I ask you is Howard now prepared to dish out billions of dollars for roads, child care, environment, housing?
Surely he has had 11 years to do this! He carries on about economic management and how Australians have never been better off. Don't be fooled, he is buying votes.
Believe me, been there, seen it all before.

Answer 4

I, at no time in my life have ever worked or applied to work, for the ALP. In my formative voting years, I always voted conservatively because thats what my father did. However, after developing my own sense of what I expected from "my" political party and what it offered me, I became a more informed voter and started voting more to the left of conservatism. As a blue collar worker, a tax payer, a family man with a mortgage, I feel that the ALP and it's policies look after the country without forgetting who elected them and why. There have been times, and quite recent, where I wasn't happy with a particular leadership of the ALP and voted accordingly. To my own disgust and eternal regret and embarrassment, I am now sufferring the fate of having voted for policies I didn't even know were on the political agenda.

That won't be happening again.

Answer 5

I think you are missing the mood of this election because a lot of the people you are referring to must have voted for the Coalition at the last poll. It is my feeling that the people of Australia have at last realised that little Johnie and his mates are not the greatest thing for this country and have decided it is time for them to go. They have been very divisive and have made the social divide greater than it has ever been. Their latest extension of that gap is the promise of tax rebates on school fees and that can only improve the lot of the well off. Why can't they offer the same tax cuts to first time home buyers on their interest payments. OOps sorry most of those will come from the so called working class.
Don't work for the ALP and have never been a member.

Answer 6

Just my opinion but most here have ALP leanings, might be the age group liking the idea of a return to a more socialist
society. Certainly some opinions have been quite extreme. I actually think our new generation coming through have been heavily influenced by our schools. Give you an example. A high school friend of ours (year 10) wrote a response to a question to do with the dismissal of Whitlam, the marking was based on strength of argument presented both on paper as delivered as part of a debate situation. (He was captain of his debating team of which won in our region) )It was brilliantly presented but he failed and was rebuked by the teacher for taking the conservative point of view and was told that his answer was not what he was being taught. Wonder if a question could be structured that would see if others agree with me on this.

Answer 7

Maybe people are just sick of the Liberal party and their tag along joke the Nationals?
After all it doesn't take a genius (or an ALP voter) to realise that interest rates are at the same rates now that KEATING got them down to in 1996...thanks to Labor opening up business with China.

Answer 8

Don't work for the ALP don't belong to the ALP haven't been in a union for nearly 20 years. I am just a bloke in a country town that is sick to death of this government

Answer 9

The Liberals have done so much damage to this country and all they can talk about is the economy. The economic reforms of the Hawke/Keating Labor Governments are the reason why everything has been scooting along quite nicely for the Liberals. That and the happenstance of the current mining boom. A drovers dog could have run this economy, anyone with any sense can see that.

It sounds like Mramazin listens to Alan Jones & Ray Hadley

..........John Howard is mean , tricky & desperate

Answer 10

I don't work for them now and never have. I have never actually been a follower of any particular political party but this time around, it's different. I must say, I agree entirely with fordfalcon1953's comments - I am voting Labor primarily to get rid of the Coalition. I don't understand the 'stick with the one you know' mentality - is it just possible that the Labor party may do a better job? I am just tired of being lied to and treated with contempt because I am just a normal, average person.

Answer 11

No I don't.

Was a swinging voter for most of the past 10 years and have voted for both major parties in that time.

After workchoices and going through the process myself. Now I am a Labor supporter!

Kevin07