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2010-05-26

More capable people needed to lead the country

Comments on Paul Kelly “Labor is caught in a catch-22 of its own creation”, 26/05/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/labor-is-caught-in-a-catch-22-of-its-own-creation/story-e6frg6zo-1225871284897

The whole RSPT drama turning now to a fiasco created by the Rudd government with Swan as the Treasurer and other two senior ministers also at the core of decision making without full cabinet participation in that process shows the four people at the core are totally incompetent and do not have a proper sense of economic management.

If this was the only economic issue they have created, it would be forgivable though nothing short of disappointing. Sadly that is not the case here in Australian federal politics over the past two and a half years.

There have been so many and big economic mistakes and mismanagement by this government in its first term in less than three years. The list is long: home insulation disaster, the BER program wastes, the Indigenous housing, the NBN, the public hospital take over, whatever you name it. Added to that was the case of cash handouts, not once but twice when the budget in deficits and debt rising.

We don’t really know what have been the core causes of the Rudd government’s problems. Rudd’s leadership clearly should be one of them, because not only he is the prime minister, but also he has shown a strong inclination of excessive personal control, he’s media driven and non-inclusive and does not like proper and effective consultations but media opportunities.

But on so many economic issues, other senior minister, especially the Treasurer and the deputy prime minister at the core should have also played their due roles. It is ultimately the Treasurer’s responsibility of economic management. One may also ask what role top Treasury bureaucratic advisors have played in so many economic policy fronts.

Besides, given the so many portfolios the deputy prime minister has, she should also have been an important part of it. She appears to be very intelligent and sensible. But the BER has been unfortunately badly designed, managed or implemented. Whether it was her role or the department role has been unclear.

Taking together, the public would be wondering: is it only the senior government ministers who messed up so many issues? Or may some parts of the bureaucrats have also been a significant part of it?

The work has been exposed, and summarised already.

It is hardly possible for old dogs to learn new tricks!

We need more competent people with strong leadership who can deliver to lead us forward.

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