On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:19:25 PM Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
https://votecompass.abc.net.au/
The ABC has a web site to allow you to compare your beliefs with the policies of the various parties.
I was very amused to notice that while there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Greens#Policy_positions and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_First_Party#Political_ideology
There is no corresponding section for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Liberal_Party which are largely devoted to history (i.e. the past).
This first-pass implication is that their ideology is so protean that they can't bear to articulate it :P
It's been a long time since the Labor party strongly advocated for workers. Gough Whitlam was probably the last Labor leader who did so. Both the major parties have few principles and pander to the lowest common denominator (EG the "turn back the boats thing") as well as pandering to the super rich. I could respect a conservative who said "we need to pay off the national debt so we must make the super rich pay tax too" or a conservative who said "we should invest in the country through education and research to develop business instead of raising taxes". But I don't think I've heard a conservative say either of those things. The ALP has some decent people in it, but overall they don't seem to do much good. Being less awful than Liberal isn't enough. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/