Rudd

Comrade rudd is a very slipery customer, when toe people finally wake up it will be too late.We have sold the farm off with the previous traitors and now that rudd has the wheel we are in for a very rough time. Ask any farming family out there,we are the front line ,we cop it in the neck a long time before the rest of the population.History should be taught in school about Whitlem and what he did to this country,we still have not recovered.

No hes not,Hes very nice have you met him yet.

Bull-sh!t !

The Australian farmers get more credit and lurks and perks than the ordinary low income workers and pensioners.

Ask any low income worker, struggler, pensioner out there ! Yeah and if you are the front line, you chose to be in that position. Live with it.

Nothing wrong with a Labor Government, at least Rudd's Labor Govt is making a better effort to help us all out than "Little Johnnie" ever did !

Yes I complelely agree, especially with the bit that farmers get help before poor old pensioners-. Farmers choose that life, and when things are good they are very good for the farmers. you choose to live that life-iff you ont like it get off the land and stop whinging and wining about it

You may be on a low income, but go and live on a farm and see how tough it is for them. You obviously have no clue, I wouldnt want to be in any farmers shoes in our climate. So instead of opening your mouth thinking you know everything spare a thought for what is on your table and where it has come from!!

I agree that the rural folk of this country and doing it tough - SO IS MOST OF THE GENERAL POPULATION if you care to look !

About the only happy people at the moment are the upper-middle class and the very rich - funny what happens when you have a Liberal federal government for longer than a decade - they eventually stop caring about the 'little' people and slip back into their old habits of caring about nobody but their rich mates. In their last term of government they finally showed their true colours, it was for me,  very much a decade of waiting for the other shoe to drop !

I feel sorry for a lot of the farming community, the Australia's urban community has moved on and left them 40 years back. - and they are suffering for it. In a lot of aspects the way things are done in rural Australia haven't changed since the 1940s !

Australia as awhole is also feeling 'left behind' compared to the rest of the Western world. I blame the post WWII federal governments up to the early 1970s for that. While the rest of the world developed we had a 'do nothing' government that allowed us to fall MASSIVELY behind. Forty years later we are still playing catch up.

I wish Rudd luck at trying to build Australia up - frankly I think the task is far larger than even they recognise. 

dirkot:

History should be taught in school about Whitlem and what he did to this country,we still have not recovered.

 

If you are going to disparage somebody the least service you could do is spell their name correctly ! It is WHITLAM.

 The whitlam government's main mistake was simply trying to do far too much far too quickly. Australia at that time was not a society geared to cope with rapid change. A lot of the population were still fervently clinging to 50s and 60s values, ardently believing that their 'old world' values would save them. If the country lived in total isolation that may well have been the case, but by the 70s we were (whether we liked it or not) becoming part of a global society. You are, in those cirumstances faced with a simple truth: Move with the times or become extinct - YOUR CHOICE.
 

I totally agree with you Kerry. The poor old pensioners do need help badly. Why should they struggle? After all, they are our elderly citizens that worked hard in their day to keep our country going. I do feel for the farmers, but they have a choice, the pensioners don't!!!!!!

Some farmers don't have a choice but to stay.  After all things are so bad for some, like they have no water piped to their homes from a big dam built by the government.  Who will buy their farms so they can pay the bank and join the unemployed in the big smoke or the small towns they live near.  We should research the life of a farmer before we put them down for the in ability to make it rain.  Yes us pensioners do have it tuff, i know as i am one, but i have also lived on the land and had to look in the eyes of hundreds of sheep as we shoot them dead as there was no water or feed.  There is many groups that are doing it really tough.

life is tough for farmers no matter which party is in power

i'm getting quite annoyed at the liberal party pushing for changes for pensioners so much. they were in power for many years, and did none of the things that they're proposing the labor government do now. they should get off their hypocritical high-horse