Very cool news for our antipodal friends
Australia held elections and swept out the liberal/green bloc.
The new Prime Minister is Tony Abbott and he has promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat.
From
Yahoo/Reuters:
Conservative leader Abbott sweeps into power in Australian elections
Australia's conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections on Saturday as voters punished the outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule and for failing to maximize the benefits of a now fading mining boom.
Abbott, a former boxer, Rhodes scholar and trainee priest, promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat.
"From today I declare that Australia is under new management and Australia is once more open for business," Abbott told jubilant supporters in Sydney.
It was frustration with Labor's leadership turmoil that cost the government dearly at the polls.
Labor dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2010, for Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard, only to reinstate Rudd as leader in June 2013 in a desperate bid to stay in power.
"It is the people of Australia to determine the government and the prime minister of this country and you will punish anyone who takes you for granted," said Abbott.
And when we see Australia's economy rebounding, we will know that this works and needs to be implemented here. It has been shown that FDR's policies actually delayed the end of the 1930's 'great depression'. We are in the grips of our 2013 equivalent and Obama keeps using the same failed Keynesian and big-government policies.
Posted by DaveH at September 7, 2013 10:59 AM