j_davo24 said:
Debnams problem is his complete lack of policies. Saying you will do the opposite of what Morris Iemma is doing is not a policy, it's complete incompetancy. The liberal party at both levels of goverment is an absolute joke at the moment. Debnam has no idea, and doesn't look like he ever did and with Howard's mess-ups lately it looks as if Labour might make it into both quite comfortably.
Anyone who votes for a party led by Debnam or an equivilent (it could be the same for labour if they had a bumbling fool as their leader) is not voting based on policy but a pure party favouring basis.
In what world have you been living?
If anything, the Coalition has policies that a more far-reaching in terms of the change they generate and the overall scope of that change:
- Water recycling
- Reforming the public sector - without sackings (including the redirection of resources - which despite what the ALP says, is away from a hugely inflated bureaucracy)
- Land Payroll tax initiatives
- Public transport initiatives (particularly in relation to the improvement and expansion of rail services)
- 1700 new police (300 HWP, 200 Detectives), twenty additional 24/7 police stations (including Five Dock in my electorate)
- Health system investment and improvement of employee
retention
- Juvenile Justice
...The list goes on... in fact its at
www.peterdebnam.com.au, or in the latest flyer near you..
Have you followed the campaign at all? Lack of policies?
It has been Labor who has been fairly cumbersome in relation to policy development, and have really taken little or no risk to minimise the already futile predicament that they have created over the last 12 years. Morris Iemma cannot even take it upon himself to promote the ALP and his senior ministers in fear of being crucified. He's put on this facade of being 'the new kid on the block' which although effective, is a complete and utter distortion of his involvment over the last 10 years.
Obviously an Opposition must always take the greater amount of risk into an election, however the ALP has barely uttered the word change. It's the same old spin, from the same old spin doctors. And although Debnam repeats it often, it is an extremely valid point; the only way anything will change following this election, is through a change of government.
