• Bloating on money dragged out of the teeth of battlers then
• disgorging it to special interest groups in marginal seats at election time

• Jesus would turn in his grave to see how Howard and Co have created a dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, the-strong-shall-inherit-the-lot Australia, all in His name, meanwhile ...
• Good old Christian hypocrisy - the "Right to Life" for disabled people does not extend to the Right to a Good Life, which would require a decent level of disability funding

Centralism masquerading as Anti-Socialism

• Liberalism used to mean opposition to Centralism. Howard had to be the most centralist PM we’ve ever had
• He wanted to take over everything, no wasting money on planning or research, just dream something up overnight when the polls dip, and send in the army to back it up

Robbing the Poor to give to the Rich

• the transfer of $3 BILLION from public housing into the pockets of private landlords: result: inflation
• the "budget surplus" extracted from the nation's rotting teeth
• the transfer of funding from the poorest schools to the richest based on the sham of postcode

Pandering to religious extremists

• for blurring the hard won boundaries between church and state
• no worries about fundamentalist extremist lunatics if they're Exclusive Brethren adding to election coffers
• allowing Hillsong to rip off the welfare system

Pandering to racists

• thick as thieves with the loony anti-semites of the League of Rights
• Nazi Croat propagandist Lyenko Urbancic leading light of the Liberal party
• playing the Muslim card when it suits them

Robbing Women and Children

• gutting the childcare system set up by Labor. This policy has now coming to fruition with the collapse of ABC childcare

Robbing workers of hard won rights

• Serfchoices
• Welfare to Workhouse
• fining individuals for striking
• using the services of a a repressive Muslim state to secretly train strike breakers
• the time-wasting conscription of disabled Australians into pointless low paid jobs

The Wedgie Portfolio

• taking every opportunity to “divide and rule” by appealing to resentment, fear, downward envy, xenophobia
• the harassment and villification of battlers via Centrelink while pretending to be on their side

Kafkalink

• the deliverance of the effective CES (Commonwealth Employment Service) into the hands of unscrupulous private operators
• Centrelink's punitive and humiliating regimes
• the gutting of Centrelink’s administrative infrastructure subjecting welfare recipients to bungle after bungle and desperation-inducing delays in payment
• miserable pensions that don’t keep up with the cost of living
• breaching the weakest

The big lie, spin, propaganda

• Is it $1 BILLION dollars of taxpayers money spent on Liberal Party advertising since they got in?
• non-core promises
• successfully slandering people with a social conscience as the “elites”, while the real elites have never been richer

Send in the army

• Iraq? Refugees? Aboriginals? No problem. No plan either.
• And of course no two diggers can get together for a quiet beer without our egregious PM suddenly popping up between them to clap them on the shoulds

Muzzling the press

• stacking the ABC board with Howard’s cronies
• Draconian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005
• prosecution of whistleblowers McManus, Harvey, Kelly, check out the details http://www.alliance.org.au/resources/reports_%26_submissions/

Shaming Australia

• Toadying to the imbecile Bush
• Children Overboard
• Christmas Island
• detention centres run like concentration camps
• incarcerating children in detention centres
• Siev-x
• the Tampa
• Hicks
• Haneef

Cricket

• It just wasn't...

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