Bob Hawke highlights

Features various videos from Australias most fun loving PM, Bob Hawke. From his famous Americas cup statement to no child shall live in poverty by 1990, all the great TV apperances are included in this video.

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[dlan1500]

@creativeengineer Atleast it was better managed than the float of the Thai currency which crushed all of asia in 1997. The float is good because it doesn't involve government interference. The free market decides. Right now its doing a good job with the mining boom and keeping inflation under control. If our dollar was weak right now we would have to many sectors booming with high wages growth, leading to inflation and higher interest rates.

[dlan1500]

@creativeengineer We can blame John Howard for the carbon tax as he was the first one to come up with the idea before the 2007 election which Rudd and Turnbull took up as well and now Gillard. It wont cut emissions and its probably just an extension of the GST. A higher tax on goods and services and then we get income tax breaks on our income. Pointless. Im not sure what Rudd had to do with Hicks. I thought the whole saga happened under Howard. Maybe Im wrong.

[creativeengineer]

@dlan1500 Yes he floated the dollar... and under Keating's leadership our dollar became junk, especially when banana republic Keating slept in one morning. Still, floating the dollar was a good idea, agreed. But their artificially punitive interest rates (and a massive tax on new home buyers in the form of subsidies to those who bought a house before 1982) has made Hawke and Keating life long enemies.

[creativeengineer]

@dlan1500 Agreed, the Greens attracts idiotic idealist young lefties who have no idea. The carbon tax is a farce and the liar Julia Gillard will pay dearly for that and her bloodless coup in coming to power. It will happen within weeks. But it should not be Rudd - he is a criminal for imprisoning Hicks without trial and then ensuring all monies from "crime" are garnished. Hicks NEVER committed a crime by the way. Rudd belongs in jail.

[creativeengineer]

@dlan1500 Agreed, Howard was a war monger. And a criminal in that he conspired with Bush to force a confession from David Hicks, and then organised the imprisonment of Hicks without trial in Australia (carried out by Rudd) - a complete travesty of justice. Howard was a bastard of a PM and should be imprisoned. So I am not a blind liberal. I won't vote until there is someone to vote for.

[dlan1500]

@creativeengineer I strongly believe in a free and open economy. I don't care much about political parties or personalities. Im a reformist and whether you vote Labor or Liberal the facts are we had one government in our life that had the guts to change Australia for the better. The float of the dollar is regarded as the single greatest economic reform in Australia's history along with the deregulation of the financial and banking system and it was labor govt that did this.... unbelievable

[dlan1500]

@creativeengineer Fraser is often regarded as one of our worst PM's. The Hawke and Keating reforms of the 80s to open up our economy should have been done by the Fraser Govt well before. The problem with conservatives is that they don't like to make big reforms and the National Party would never have allowed it. The Nationals along with the Greens are the biggest waste of space. Nationals supporting farmers ....what a joke. They sold out the farmers 10 years ago.

[dlan1500]

@creativeengineer All governments make mistakes. Its no different to the families who lost sons in the Howard wars that we should not have got involved in. Joe Hockey hasn't got a clue about economics and tried to cover up their costing before the last election only for Treasury to discover 11 billion dollar hole. Turnbull would be a good leader but he is probably in the wrong party. Believes in gay marriage, Climate change, price on carbon etc

[creativeengineer]

@dlan1500 Those "on higher incomes" are punished with higher taxes, especially under Hawke. The home grants were a disaster - ill conceived, foolish and short sighted. Next came insulation scam - so baldy planned, a chook raffle at a kindergarten BBQ could have been run better. Rudd's indifference to the bereaved families of the electrocuted young men putting in the insulation beggars belief.

[creativeengineer]

@dlan1500 Joe Hockey would also be a great leader. He is intelligent, level headed and believes in well engineered policies. And for the 50% of the low IQ voters who vote on personality rather than the issues, Hockey has charisma. Turnbull has the basic problem is he is filthy rich. Like with Malcomn Fraser, the Labor working class and bogans out there don't identify with wealth and refinement. Hawke did well... a good actor. A mate in behaviour, betrayer in deed (esp. first home buyers).