A MAJOR MISJUDGMENT
Shorten misjudged the Australian psyche.
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Most of us are a bunch of self interested, exploitative, uncaring individuals.
Bill thought we cared about our worse off fellow citizens, the education and health of the many and reversing the expensive unearned tax rorts enjoyed by a few.
Your agenda was brave Bill, but the shallow psyche of Australians in 2019 were unable or unwilling to comprehend it.
Elsa Story, Woonona
REFORM HAS TO WAIT
A lot has been said and written about how the pollsters got the results of Saturday's election so wrong.
How about this thought?
The polling was of voters who had already made up their minds and had perhaps largely supported Labor.
On the basis of this polling, Labor was supposedly heading for an overwhelming victory.
Overwhelming victories do not rest easily on the shoulders of many Australians and I suspect that because of the national penchant for supporting the underdog, many previously undecided voters may have come down on the side of the Coalition in order to even up the contest.
Underdog status is highly prized in Australia.
I could also throw in the Coalition's shameful preference deal with Clive Palmer and their misleading terminology, such as describing the removal of the benefits to the wealthy, associated with dividend imputation as a "retirement tax," as contributing to the unexpected result.
Much needed reform must now wait another three years.
John Martin, Woonona
PROTECTING THE UNBORN
In response to the page three article 'Labor cash for new one-stop domestic violence support service' (Illawarra Mercury, Thursday May 16, 2019), Federal Labor MP's Sharon Bird and Stephen Jones talking with staff of the Illawarra Women's Health Centre about domestic violence, should be questioned?
Both Labor and the Women's Health Centre are strong advocates of abortion.
Women in situations of domestic violence need genuine support but not from those who advocate violence and murder against the unborn child?
How fake are these people? What hypocrisy?
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
A NATION OF INVESTORS
It was Howard and Costello that destroyed economic fairness.
They changed us from a nation of savers to a nation of investors.
Their legacy has been carried on by successive conservative governments -franking credit refunds, negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts.
On the agenda of the newly elected conservative government: tax cuts, a negative climate policy and an unchanged wage policy.
Scott Morrison's economic policies could well have been drawn up in the boardroom of a finance corporation-where company profits and investor dividends dominate the agenda.
John Macleod, Berry