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Australia Re-Elects Howard Prime Minister
Yahoo!News ^ | October 9, 2004 | MIKE CORDER

Posted on 10/09/2004 7:46:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Put down the champagne bottle and weigh in!


21 posted on 10/09/2004 8:50:03 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Kaslin; All

Alright I try find any results late last night NOTHING

I was hoping PM Howard win against his weak minded opporant


22 posted on 10/09/2004 8:58:04 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Kaslin

Women and minorities most effected

positively


23 posted on 10/09/2004 9:01:13 AM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: Kaslin

Congrats to all of Australia, Howard by 5 points...(followed by Karzai +11, Bush +8 and Allawi +15)


24 posted on 10/09/2004 9:03:33 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a veil for MASS MURDERS. Save your time...)
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To: Kaslin

Link http://vtr.aec.gov.au/

Looks like Howard's coalition government extended its power while Labor and the Greens lost ground. Interesting development considering how one Aussy news agency I followed predicted that the Greens would increase in power.

Lesson to us here in US: Don't listen to MSM because they're RATHER influenced by the DNC.


25 posted on 10/09/2004 9:09:16 AM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: Kaslin
At the polls, a man in line said to the prime minister: "Mr. Howard, if you win, I'm moving to Europe."
There's hope! Maybe liberals of the world will all end up in France!
26 posted on 10/09/2004 9:26:06 AM PDT by Quicksilver (Yeah, but does it pass the "global test"?)
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To: Quicksilver

Was his name Alec Baldwin, by any chance?


27 posted on 10/09/2004 10:39:03 AM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: Kaslin

Congratulations to Australia for making the right choice. But I must ask if Howard's party is conservative, how come his party is called Liberal-National? Can some Aussie Freeper or someone who knows alot about Australian politics explain. I like more information on that.


28 posted on 10/09/2004 10:43:04 AM PDT by youngtory ("The tired, old, corrupt Liberal party is cornered like an angry rat"-Stephen Harper)
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To: demkicker
If Latham would have won, it would have headlined every MS newspaper. Funny how Howard's win is practically being reported in a whisper. What else is new?

Quite a difference from how they were practically crowing about what happened in Spain--remember how when Aznar was defeated, there were no shortage of liberal reporters (are there any other kind?) and democrats given air time to state how this might bode badly for W.

Since it would be dang near difficult to spin Howard's win as a drawback to W, of course they're being quiet about it.

29 posted on 10/09/2004 10:53:55 AM PDT by gop_gene
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To: youngtory

I imagine the Autralian liberal-national can be compared to our conservative


30 posted on 10/09/2004 11:38:04 AM PDT by Kaslin (Stick a fork in Kerry, he is done)
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To: youngtory

Actually, Howard belongs to the Liberal Party. National is a seperate party that they are colalitioned with (since they are in a multiparty parlimentary system, and since one party rarely has a majority, they join up with a 'minor party' to have control over the government [unlike here where we pretty much only have two parties due to our winner take all system, Democrats and Republicans).

As for why it is called Liberal, it is because they were named for 'classical liberalism'. Before our current bred of idiots stole the term and twisted it, classical liberalism is the belief of more freedom, period. Specifically, in terms of capitalism (the original liberals were capitalist). This is also why Japan's conservative party is also, the Liberal party (I think they call themselves Liberal Democrats).


31 posted on 10/09/2004 12:07:39 PM PDT by Simmy2.5 (Kerry served in Vietnam. Really. Just as the Swift Boat Vets.)
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To: Dog Gone; Carry_Okie; MEG33; jellybean; TEXASPROUD
..put down the champagne bottle and weigh in!...

He he he. Well mate, it's a great feeling! Clan Byron are floating on air, this morning. A Latham win would have been disastrous for us, since he intended to target areas of particular relevance to our family, like private schools and forest industries. There's so many positive aspects to this win I haven't been able to digest them all, yet. Things like the collapse of the Australian Democrats, that the Greens picked up only 2% of the voters who bailed from that party, the success of the new Christian party, Family First, that the government may have control of the Senate with the help of FF, that the Tasmanian timber workers took the lead in destroying Labor... the good news just keeps on coming. Some of the financial promises made to voters by the Howard government during the campaign were absolutely disgraceful and will now have to be paid for but as we've seen a zillion times on FR you can never have it all, can you? It's a beautiful morning, and school holidays finish today, so I'm going to take the kids fishing and reflect on what can be accomplished over the next four years now the threat of living under Labor's yoke is gone. And I am confident that you guys will be similarly celebrating in three weeks as the Dems are sent back to their ratholes with their tails between their legs. All the best mate, and thanks for thinking of us Downunder.

32 posted on 10/09/2004 3:20:13 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup2.html)
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To: youngtory

Slimmy's given a pretty good answer.

Basically the Liberal Party of Australia was established at the end of World War II by a merging of a number of small and large conservative parties. At the time it was formed, Australia had one of its most significant left-wing governments in power - Labor has always been socialist, but its socialism goes in waves, sometimes mild, sometimes strong. During World War II, it was fairly strong (fortunately it was also dedicated to helping to win the war, and while I don't like the man's politics, our Prime Minister of the day, John Curtin, remains one of my political heroes because he stood the test in war). But by 1944, it was clear we were going to win the war, and Labor's plans for peacetime were quite scary. They were going to turn Australia into a socialist utopia, by placing significant controls on what people were and were not allowed to do.

To oppose this, the conservative parties combined under the idea of preserving peoples fundamental freedoms - their liberties, and they adopted the name Liberal in imitation of similar parties of the 19th century.


33 posted on 10/09/2004 3:21:28 PM PDT by naturalman1975 (Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Beautiful summary Byron. God bless you and yours... and slit a gut for me when you land a whopper... after you deem that such a scaly beast must be a socialist.
34 posted on 10/09/2004 3:33:48 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by central planning.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Congrats, mate!!

that the Tasmanian timber workers took the lead in destroying Labor...

W might be interested in some of that timber...Wanna buy some wood??

35 posted on 10/09/2004 3:52:56 PM PDT by jellybean (All my posts are forgeries...)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Byron, this means more to conservatives in America than you perhaps realize. Australia has been with us in every important matter going back decades, and even centuries.

You didn't do a Spain on us. You were unflinching in the face of terror, and we here couldn't be more proud of you. Way to go!

36 posted on 10/09/2004 4:12:15 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Queen of Excelsior
It will be all the voter fraud that will make our election close

You guys talk like Jimmy Carter.

This is not a third world nation.

The Democrats can only steal a close election, not make an election close by voter fraud.

That is why they wait until they see how many votes they need like they did in SD and NM.

If the election is a blowout they will not the opportunity for voter fraud.

37 posted on 10/09/2004 4:17:36 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: Simmy2.5; Kaslin; naturalman1975

Thanks for the information, it was better to get it from right-minded thinkers than socialist encyclopedia.


38 posted on 10/09/2004 5:13:00 PM PDT by youngtory ("The tired, old, corrupt Liberal party is cornered like an angry rat"-Stephen Harper)
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