Monday, October 15, 2007

A vote for Labor is a vote for..

Kevin Rudd seems like a top bloke. A real nice guy. But lets see what a vote for him means. The kind folks at A Western Heart have compiled the following future ALP cabinet, and its not very reassuring:
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Prime Minister: Kevin Rudd
Deputy prime Minister and Minister for Industrial relations: Julia Gillard, former student radical and AUS president
Treasurer: Wayne Swan, former ALP state secretary
Attorney general: Joe Ludwig, former AWU official
Minister for Homeland security: Arch Bevis, former organiser Queensland teachers’ Union
Minister for Trade: Simon Crean, former president, ACTU
Minister for Transport and Tourism: Martin Ferguson, former president, ACTU
Minister for Finance: Lindsay Tanner, former state secretary, Federated Clerk’s Union
Minister for Environment and the Arts: Peter Garrett, lifelong anti-American activist
Minister for Infrastructure and Water: Anthony Albanese. former assistant general secretary, NSW ALP
Minister for Human Services: Tanya Plibersek, former student union official, UTS
Minister for Immigration: Tony Burke, former official Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Union
Minister for Resources: Chris Evans, former official Miscellaneous Workers’ Union
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs: Alan Griffin, former official federated Clerks Union
Minister for Primary Industry: Kerry O’Brien, former official Miscellaneous Workers’ Union
Minister for Superannuation: Nick Sherry, former state secretary, Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union
Minister for Sport: Kate Lundy, former official CFMEU.
Further to that, there are these guys, all ready to step up to the plate:
Greg Combet, candidate for Charlton and former ACTU president
Doug Cameron, NSW Senate candidate and secretary of Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union
Bill Shorten: candidate for Maribyrnong and national secretary, Australian Workers’ Union
Richard Marles: candidate for Corio and former assistant secretary, Transport Workers Union.

4 comments:

  1. And you'll notice how very few of them are actually fronting up for some questioning in the media, Kevin Rudd won't let them, he saw what happens when they are with that McCelland fellow last week, so the folks out there wouldn't know half the people in that list.

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  2. Rudd sure is keeping a lid on things, and putting a gag on others. Peter Garrett can't oppose the Gunns pulp mill, Mclelland can't oppose the death penalty, the unionists can't complain that Rudd's IR laws are too similar to Workchoices. Things are going to boil over.

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  3. I kid you not- you just changed my vote!

    You need to get this list in the public eye ... they should be called the Australian Former Unionist Party.

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  4. Ack. Crean as trade minister.

    The most pro-tariff, pro-industrial policy guy in the party as freaking trade minister.

    This just gets worse and worse.

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