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November 25, 2007
The conservatives have gone along with their negativity, politics of fear and their anti-academic rhetoric. The Liberal/National political and cultural conservatives that is. That is good news indeed. Many of us were tired or bored with the old crowd and wanting something different. That something different included equity or fairness (eg., Workchoices), as much as it was about the quality of life beyond the market, jobs and small business.
Matt Golding
The caravan has now moved on and we live with the new Labor economic conservatives in Canberra. They had little to say about the arts or the creative industries apart from blowing hot and strong about broadband and computers for kids in schools. Will the development of high speed broadband make a big cultural difference? Or is that more or less about Telstra and competition in telecommunications?
Update: 26 November
It's a new day dawning for some as the days of Howard/Costello have come to a decisive end, and many are celebrating:
Alan Moir
From all accounts the seachange up along the northern NSW and southern Queensland coast of eastern Australia also made a big difference in the political shift.
What of the anti-academic rightwing trolls who love to bash the academy? Will they retire to their own caves to lick their wounds? Or will the thuggies of the radical right continue to shout everyone down and engage in their on-line muggings?
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