Australia's new government should understand the following.(Essay)

From: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Stone, John | Copyright information

As this article is being filed, (1) the federal election campaign is in full swing. Before it is published we shall know whether, over the next three years, we shall be governed by the Coalition parties, again, or by a Labor government led by Mr Kevin Rudd. This timing means that most major topical issues are, effectively, off-limits.

On immigration policy, for example, a Rudd Government will produce an even worse outcome than the Howard Government. The failed ideology of...

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