Labour Leadership Challenge
December 4th 2006 23:58
Is between candidates Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd
Kim Beazley, current oposition leader, well, you all no doubt have made up your own mind about him, and if you haven't - get out from under your rock.
Kevin Rudd, whose popularity was double that of Beazley in a recent opinion poll;
"is a supporter of the road map for peace and defended Israel's right to self-defence during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, condemning Hezbollah and Hamas for "violating" Israeli territory[4]. This was seen as a step towards mending relations between the Jewish community and the ALP following the comments of several backbenchers[5].
While not attracting the wider media attention of, for example, Tony Abbott's Catholicism, Rudd is open about his Anglican Christianity[6] and has given a number of interviews to the Australian religious press on the topic including one, following an essay he wrote, with ABC's Lateline program where he cited Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian pastor and pacifist in Nazi Germany, as a man from whom he draws inspiration.
Rudd is critical of economist Friedrich Hayek"
- Wikipedia
Whilst I disagree with his belief that invading a country can count as self defence, he supports the UN's road map for peace, which is always good. I'm not going to deny that Hezbollah and Hamas are amongst those who need condemming, murder is never the answer.
He's Christian, which means nothing to me either way, although he cited one of the few men who dared remain a pacifist in Nazi Germany, so that's a plus
I know that last line means little to most of us, I had to wikipeda the guys name. Basically Freidrich was an avid supporter of Capitalism, defending it against the idea of the sahring of wealth, and he greatly influenced pricks such as Margfaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
I'm going to leave you all with a quote from the Sydney Morning Herald
""The central rationale of John Howard's culture wars is to effectively mask the real battle of ideas for Australia's future: a battle between Hayek's ideology of me, myself and I, versus an idea that says rewarding hard work, achievement and success is entirely compatible with the idea of a decent society."
In short, while the Government is talking about Mao in the classroom or the laziness of the unemployed or the problems of Islam, it is not talking about its unpopular Work Choices laws. The culture wars can be debated as and when required as a tremendous subject-changing device."
The first paragraph was an extract from an essay from Kevin Rudd.
Please don't be distracted by Howard's smoke and mirrors, because that snake spends most of his political life being hated by Australians, then through clever advertising he gains peoples trust during election time. Well, fuck him
Peace
Kim Beazley, current oposition leader, well, you all no doubt have made up your own mind about him, and if you haven't - get out from under your rock.
Kevin Rudd, whose popularity was double that of Beazley in a recent opinion poll;
"is a supporter of the road map for peace and defended Israel's right to self-defence during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, condemning Hezbollah and Hamas for "violating" Israeli territory[4]. This was seen as a step towards mending relations between the Jewish community and the ALP following the comments of several backbenchers[5].
While not attracting the wider media attention of, for example, Tony Abbott's Catholicism, Rudd is open about his Anglican Christianity[6] and has given a number of interviews to the Australian religious press on the topic including one, following an essay he wrote, with ABC's Lateline program where he cited Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian pastor and pacifist in Nazi Germany, as a man from whom he draws inspiration.
Rudd is critical of economist Friedrich Hayek"
- Wikipedia
Whilst I disagree with his belief that invading a country can count as self defence, he supports the UN's road map for peace, which is always good. I'm not going to deny that Hezbollah and Hamas are amongst those who need condemming, murder is never the answer.
He's Christian, which means nothing to me either way, although he cited one of the few men who dared remain a pacifist in Nazi Germany, so that's a plus
I know that last line means little to most of us, I had to wikipeda the guys name. Basically Freidrich was an avid supporter of Capitalism, defending it against the idea of the sahring of wealth, and he greatly influenced pricks such as Margfaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
I'm going to leave you all with a quote from the Sydney Morning Herald
""The central rationale of John Howard's culture wars is to effectively mask the real battle of ideas for Australia's future: a battle between Hayek's ideology of me, myself and I, versus an idea that says rewarding hard work, achievement and success is entirely compatible with the idea of a decent society."
In short, while the Government is talking about Mao in the classroom or the laziness of the unemployed or the problems of Islam, it is not talking about its unpopular Work Choices laws. The culture wars can be debated as and when required as a tremendous subject-changing device."
The first paragraph was an extract from an essay from Kevin Rudd.
Please don't be distracted by Howard's smoke and mirrors, because that snake spends most of his political life being hated by Australians, then through clever advertising he gains peoples trust during election time. Well, fuck him
Peace
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