Newspoll Again and More
July 24th 2007 01:31
The polls are consistently trending Kevin's way. It seems inconceiveable at this point that Howard could claw his way back into the affections of the Australian Electorate. While the shows not over till it's over, a Howard victory seems unlikely, despite Tony Abbott's brave protestations thiis morning. A ten percentage point TPP poll lead is an election winner only six month's out.
The solid wall of the Labor front bench on security issues is a momentous achievement on Rudd's part - pity Beattie had to open his trap. Rudd hasn't played a bum card yet in this long poker game. His main weak point is the ALP's relationship with the unions (and the incoherent party structure itself).
How will Australia change under a Rudd GOvernment? Not much, I suspect. There may be purely symbolic wins for the cultural left - perhaps a gay quasi-marriage provision like the French civil union. There will be much blood and fur flying, I imagine but not to any great effect. As it was put to me recently - last night at Bistro Moncur actually - the battle over marriage was lost under Murphy's Law. The curent legal status of marriage renders it a nugatory obligation that is easier to evade than a phone contract.
Who knows why the gay lobby really wants such shop-soiled goods? I suppose there are always pension entitlements. Maybe, though, the whole idea of sexually transmitable pensions is a nineteenth century one. Are women just baby machines and socially dependant chattels that need protecting after the death of the breadwinner. The unfairness lies not so much in Justice Kirby's gay partner being denied access to his pension after the good judge's death, it is that Mrs Callinan, good woman though I am sure she is, will recieve a more than handsome remuneration from a grateful nation. In the days when women had no lives of their own or opportunity to contribute to the economy, apart from needlepoint and child rearing, a pension system made eminent sense. It now seems to be just the political classes feathering their own nests at the expense of the public purse.
Funny that regressive economic entitlements accrued on the basis of a reactionary gender politics don't attract more attention from the sisters.
The solid wall of the Labor front bench on security issues is a momentous achievement on Rudd's part - pity Beattie had to open his trap. Rudd hasn't played a bum card yet in this long poker game. His main weak point is the ALP's relationship with the unions (and the incoherent party structure itself).
How will Australia change under a Rudd GOvernment? Not much, I suspect. There may be purely symbolic wins for the cultural left - perhaps a gay quasi-marriage provision like the French civil union. There will be much blood and fur flying, I imagine but not to any great effect. As it was put to me recently - last night at Bistro Moncur actually - the battle over marriage was lost under Murphy's Law. The curent legal status of marriage renders it a nugatory obligation that is easier to evade than a phone contract.
Who knows why the gay lobby really wants such shop-soiled goods? I suppose there are always pension entitlements. Maybe, though, the whole idea of sexually transmitable pensions is a nineteenth century one. Are women just baby machines and socially dependant chattels that need protecting after the death of the breadwinner. The unfairness lies not so much in Justice Kirby's gay partner being denied access to his pension after the good judge's death, it is that Mrs Callinan, good woman though I am sure she is, will recieve a more than handsome remuneration from a grateful nation. In the days when women had no lives of their own or opportunity to contribute to the economy, apart from needlepoint and child rearing, a pension system made eminent sense. It now seems to be just the political classes feathering their own nests at the expense of the public purse.
Funny that regressive economic entitlements accrued on the basis of a reactionary gender politics don't attract more attention from the sisters.
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Comment by Dionysius
The homosexual lobby (and those who follow in their wake) will forever grasp at whatever straws it can to "prove" that their orientation is as valid as any. The real issue is whether they seek to convince themselves or the rest of the population. I think the former.
The ALP, thanks to a decreasing Christian influence and a natural hunger for power after 11 years, will be their incremental vehicle for constant 'reforms' to destabilise our societal foundations, as has already happened in most of the Western world.
To describe the situation as already lost, as you largely have, is unworthy of you and of Tradition. Think of St Athanasius. Our damaged culture is already assailed on many fronts - I do not think defeatism is the correct response. These lobbies are smart, patient and inherently Fabian.
Without wishing to invoke Godwin's Law, the election of Mr Rudd would, in a cultural (but not in a political sense), parallel that of Herr Franz von Papen in 1932. Bon chance. Or in English, stop concentrating upon the peripheries, as if you were Cardinal Gilroy in 1966 and choosing between two social conservative parties, and start concentrating on what the likely consequences of these accomodations will be in 20 years time.
God bless
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