Rudd needs to get his priorities straight.

We all believed that Rudd's rise to power would signal this nation's rising out of capitalism and

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into the new age of freedom and prosperity for this much-maligned patch of desert out in the south. Of course, his contradictory 'fixes' are beginning to show that he may even be worse than whatever Howard had to throw at us.

Firstly, and I may or may not have mentioned this before, Rudd, as with any leader of a capitalist nation, has his tongue firmly wrapped around the throbbing cock of the industry, which fucks over those of us on the bottom in order to bring much-undeserved pleasure to itself and its bastard cohorts. While lamenting that Australia will be unable to meet the rest of the world's carbon emission reduction targets, he spends $16 billion (that's Australian dollars, so about 32 bil. pound) on submarines to terrorise the tiny Pacific islands about Oceania [incidentally, Australia has a long history of oppressing everyone in order to try to remain 'top dog' in the Southern hemisphere]. Meanwhile, he's unveiled a plan for a nation-wide broadband system which should 'increase the internet speed by 100%'. Like we need it. Incidentally, that $900 benefit to students only goes to those on youth allowance. Rudd's well known for his draconian prerequisites for youth allowance. As an example, I'm not elegible because my dad earns $2000 more than Rudd says is enough. Many others at this university (which is actually the most prestigious in the state) suffer likewise.

I could go on about the faults of capitalism. But I'd also like to bring up an issue which was recently quite in the spotlight but has now once again faded into obscurity: The war in Gaza. Now I don't really have the time [read: effort] at the moment to write about this topic, as another one has just cropped up and this post is late as it is, so I'll post this for now and make another post about the 2009 Gaza conflict/oppression of Palestinians soon enough.