Courtesy of the Defence Minister, Labor will enact its 'secret' disarmament policies if elected this Saturday. I did look at the ALP Policies, but found little to no substance apart from following the Coalition Government and criticizing their policies. Although the Minister doesn't realize the F15 is better for Australia than the Super Hornet and the F22 than the JSF F35, I still think John Howard is a safer bet than a Rudd Government.
Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party as a whole has no clear direction for Australia and especially with the issue of welfare abuse, the leftists (Labor) are refusing to pay attention except to say no Government intervention in the N.T. . In the long term we need to cease the welfare state, but we need to get there with reforms. Does Rudd intend to do this? Um, maybe he will educate the natives on superior brewing techniques (with laptops mind you!) as part of his education revolution. I wonder how much Mao and Stalinist theory will be required to be in the curriculum?
The news item below about Labor 'pushing' to buy the F22 has no credence, especially in the Defence Policy of Labor. It is all too convenient to scream 'blue murder' at the time, like Mr Rudd does his "Me too", but when required to act, the game will have changed.
Labor intends to 'engage' the South Pacific 'Rim of Fire' by setting up a new Stalinist indoctrination complex. Instead of using force where necessary, Labor wants to try leftist 'non-aggression'.
Robert McClelland, the ALP's Shadow Defence Minister, seems to me to be pro-disarmament, contrasting Kim Beazley's 'call to arms' policy similar to Churchill. Even with Beazley with Defence Minister, funding was cut. With this guy, he may just hand over all the ADF's equipment to Indonesia as a gesture of 'good will'. Poor Singapore, a much higher defence budget than Australia (per capita), and with Labor at the helm will probably see itself as the new Strategic Superpower in the region.
With both Parties offering little vision for our Air Force, it seems that the current Government, who last under saw the purchase of new fighter aircraft for Australia (early 1980s), can only be trusted with this. What a shame we didn't get the F15 though, a true Air Superiority fighter. The F15E can also do Air-Ground. But fly it with an F111 on missions both can perform deep strike mission duties, but the F15 would be ideal for covering the F111 on its deep strike.
Labor is not intent on having a direction for our Military (or ADF as we call it, Australian Defence Forces-the best form of Defence is Attack though!) and since the likes of Beazley, Hawke and Keating are no longer, and have no similar identities in the current radical left makeup of Labor, we will lose out on Defence altogether, if Labor get elected. My prediction though is that the Coalition will be re-elected.
If Australia voted the Labor Government in, it will be the first time Labor has a major stranglehold in Australia on all State and Federal Governments. I can't see this happening at the present time, as Prime Minister John Howard is still quite popular.
One can only hope Peter Costello will make some good decisions on Defence once he takes Office. He will be a truly legendary Prime Minister for Australia. John Howard has been and is too, at last making some good changes in Industrial Relations. But it all started with that, thanks to Union militarism. Even today at construction sites we see the CFMEU flying their Scottish flags. Keep 'em flying boys, you help remind Australia why PM John Howard is there.
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Is this political rant intended as some sort of serious analysis? I hope not because it fails miserably! I notice I'm the only one to reply and that is probably because nobody else would bother to risk RSI pointing out the many factual inaccuracies in this diatribe.
Has the author considered that the decision by Brendan Nelson to purchase the Super Hornets was made independent of any consultation with the end users, namely the RAAF and the Australian public? Has the author considered the fact that one of the Liberal Party's "Old Boys", Andrew Peacock, now heads up Boeing in Australia? If we accept both of these facts how can the assertion be made that they are better equiped to handle the nation's defence procurement policy?
I'd also like to state that I am by no means saying that the Labor party would necessarily handle things any better but at least there is a commitment to a new Defence White paper to examine what our priorities are, there doesn't seem to be any cohesive plan at the minute. Furthermore at least they are looking at the possibility that weshould take up the F-22 option with the US, something Brendan Neslon stated concusively would not happen.
Come on! That piece was rubbish!
The assertion is made based on two clear facts. Defence spending has summarily increased under the Howard Government unlike under Hawke/Keating it was steadily decreasing. The second fact being I have never seen in recent times any purchase made by Labor of new or any aircraft for that matter for the RAAF. The F4, F111, F/A18, Mirage and Skyhawk purchases are all made by the Liberal party in the last 50 years. Need I say more.
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