Thursday, May 10, 2007
Politics - In Australia
A predominant conservative society has formed...
Scott Prasser writes in the Australian News:
"Because during the past two decades conservatives have won all the key policy battles. Conservative values drive the policy agenda to such an extent that whoever is in power is essentially unimportant. Now, and in the foreseeable future, there will be little divergence from the conservative agenda. We live in a conservative world and the Labor Party takes its policy cues from the conservative framework. Left-of-centre views may still have currency at universities, but in the real world of voter preferences and policies that work there is no market for outdated left-of-centre policy products. Everywhere, leftist policies are in retreat.
State Labor governments, once known for their interventionist economic strategies, have adopted a more market-oriented policy agenda."
