John Howard lost probably because he did not pull out of iraq
soon enough. I really don't know much about oz politics. But what
Rudd said he would do to improve the infant mortality rate for the
aboriginals would take years if not decades to see results. For the
time being, everybody is just watching what the new government
would do.
After opposition party took over the KMT in Taiwan, nothing of what
they said would do could be done. Can Rudd do what Howard could not
do? can Singapore oppositions do what the PAP could not do?
Singaporeans are also watching.
Politics are the same everywhere. To be excited over a new
government is simply naive.
To those who are interested in migrating, Rudd said that his
compassion did not stretch to an overhaul of Australia's migration
system which includes turning away illegal asylum seekers. I guess
his message is that anyone who feel persecuted politically by the
PAP has no ground to migrate, at least not to australia.
