Comments on: Politics

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:09:00 +0000

OK, I’ve been meaning to get back to this.

I love Christmas and the way that shortbread makes more of an appearance then any other time in the year but also thanks for the info everyone, I reckon I’ll be referring back to this stuff later on to get a grip on things again.

Why doesn’t Labor have the U? Is there some old time story to go with this or is just like they did some printing once and it would be too expensive to throw out all the old stationery and have it reprinted with the U in it?

By: Naomi

Naomi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:20:29 +0000

Oh, and to add the the confustion, the Australia Labor Party has no U in Labor. Labor not Labour.

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:39:43 +0000

Hey, Howie, do you reckon that there are bamboo adult nappies out there?

By: Nat

Nat — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:38:50 +0000

Yeah, true…Walkers shortbread is pretty good…I especially like the ones with macadamias in them!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:18:18 +0000

I really like Walker’s shortbread also.

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:06:42 +0000

i like walkers shotbread

By: Nat

Nat — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:37:44 +0000

or walkers and adult nappies!

By: Howie

Howie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:11:43 +0000

haha yeah it is all grown up to talk about politics, at least we aren’t talking about hip replacements yet.

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:48:16 +0000

Defending myself…knew he was no longer in politics but he WAS the leader of the Nats so thereforeshould have fit under your description of old alcoholic whatevers…

But he wasn’t….

Politics discussions…we are getting old!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:32:41 +0000

One view on why Christians tend to be associated with non-environmental policies (especially in America), is that some particularly vocal and media savvy Christians tend to have a view along the lines of “sooner or later, probably sooner, we’re all going to disappear in a rapture anyway, so why bother about this evil world?”. Not the sort of theology I hold with, but I suppose it’s their right to have their opinion, however little evidence I can see in Scripture to support it.
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This view is also a bit easier to back up with inaction, than the alternative view which tends to focus on our role as tending God’s creation, and being his representatives on an abused planet.
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The current state of Australian politics is quite centre-ist, with both major parties having to look fairly hard for ‘wedge issues’ to argue about, as most of their policies are actually fairly similar… although they hate it when people point that out. The Greens are way off to the left in ‘save the gay whales’ territory, while the Shooters Party etc are over on the right, just slightly left of the ‘Australia First’ and ‘One Nation’ mob who are busy looking out for foreign terrorist Communists who might be sneaking in on refugee boats.
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The election that will probably be held in early/mid 2010 will be for who gets to be Prime Minister (KRudd’s current job). Tony Abbott just got himself elected as leader of the Liberals (the Opposition party, who lost the last election – remember John Howard?). He’ll be going up against KRudd, unless the ALP have a similar implosion and elect a new leader before then… although that’s fairly unlikely at this stage.
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Parties like Family First have prominent Christians involved, and so quite a lot of Christian people feel that they have to vote for them. I can see why people want faithful types to make important decisions, but realistically once politicians are in power they tend to follow the agendas that their advisors present to them in any case, so perhaps Christian public servants are more important than Christian politicians?
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In any case, that’s all my opinion, and as open to criticism as the next person’s. I just happen to think that I’m fairly well spot on… funny that.