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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (68408)	9/2/2007 1:17:18 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

The other candidate is Kevin Rudd leader of Labor. He's trying to sound more fiscally conservative than Howard and generally far more of a centrist than Labor has been since they went into opposition in 1996. The last Labor government was strongly reformist on the economic front. But once they lost power to the Liberals they swung strongly to socialist conservatism. Labor wants to rollback some of the labor-relations reform put in recently by the Liberal government but not enough to please the unions. On foreign policy he is certainly not going to be a Bush supporter. Maybe it's time for a change and Labor has sobered up enough to actually govern. For a while it look liked there would be a Labor landslide but now the election seems closer. I never liked Howard - as I am certainly not a social conservative - more of a libertarian leaning liberal - with the preferential voting system in Australia I would usually vote Democrat or Green with my preferences for Liberal. As the Democrat or Green candidate had no chance in the ACT you could register a protest vote but still vote for someone who had a chance of winning.