Its in the genes

Full marks to channel nines 60 minutes program last night (1.1.12). The Gillard/Ludwig disaster of closing down the cattle industry was shown at its incompetent worst. A government should not be allowed to do what this one did to its own citizens. Only Soviet style rule can account for debacles such as this.

Windshuttle nails the political DNA underpinning this government:

Apart from delivering on the big debt she owes to the trade union movement, Gillard’s most ambitious left-wing agenda item is to make the population conform to state-approved codes of taste, speech, sexual behaviour, parenting, body fat, and gambling habits. Gillard also has a target for 40 per cent of young people to go to university, a piece of social engineering designed, as she says, to produce more people like herself. The Left’s main objective today is no longer democracy or liberty but conformity. In short, while leftists can adopt conservative reforms on some issues, they still cannot jettison their conviction that they are superior beings who have the right to dictate to others how they should live.