Melbourne Cup Day at Parliament House
Looks like next Tuesday is going to be busy at Parliament House, with the government introducing its anti-terrorism legislation into parliament. Now that wouldn’t be to have it buried in the mass of publicity about the Cup, would it? Whats the odds of the industrial relations legislation also hitting the parliament around the middle of next week also?
As I’ve posted previously, the government has been very cynically abusing its power now it has control of both Houses of Parliament. Its one thing to have power, but it doesn’t have to be abused in the way that John Howard and co are doing lately.
I’m actually very disappointed about how the government has carried on since their last election win. By and large, I think they’ve been pretty good since they’ve been in power (1996) but there is a sharply escalated level of arrogance since the last election. I can see a repeat of what happened to Jeff Kennett in Victoria coming up at the rate they are going …they need to rein in the more extreme fantasies some of them are trying to fulfil with the power they now have.
