Aussie Election

baggygreen · 11-25-07, 06:57 PM

I'm surprised noone put up any thread about this yet!? its not like its no small news, a govt is voted out after 11 years....

I know that bookworm_020 is a happy man for the result, I'm very much on tenterhooks atm tho.

For those who don't know, Howard's govt has been in power 11 years and Australia has become somewhat splintered by him. he's made a lot of tough choices that have benefitted the country, but his choices have often been unpopular. After a 6 week election campaign in which i was fed up by the blatant lies and scaremongering by many parties, the Opposition was voted in on the weekend, and convinvingly so.

Rudd will be making a lot of changes asap, a major one of which is to pull out the combat troops in iraq, which is about 1/3 of our deployment. Another is his refusal to sell uranium to India until they sign the NPT, and yet another is that we will become signatory to the Kyoto protocol inside a month (i think that timeframe's right?)

big changes for our standing in world affairs i foresee.

11-25-07, 06:57 PM	#1
baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Aussie Election I'm surprised noone put up any thread about this yet!? its not like its no small news, a govt is voted out after 11 years.... I know that bookworm_020 is a happy man for the result, I'm very much on tenterhooks atm tho. For those who don't know, Howard's govt has been in power 11 years and Australia has become somewhat splintered by him. he's made a lot of tough choices that have benefitted the country, but his choices have often been unpopular. After a 6 week election campaign in which i was fed up by the blatant lies and scaremongering by many parties, the Opposition was voted in on the weekend, and convinvingly so. Rudd will be making a lot of changes asap, a major one of which is to pull out the combat troops in iraq, which is about 1/3 of our deployment. Another is his refusal to sell uranium to India until they sign the NPT, and yet another is that we will become signatory to the Kyoto protocol inside a month (i think that timeframe's right?) big changes for our standing in world affairs i foresee.