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Originally Posted by 2011G6E
Not the first time the government has done this, and won't be the last. It's usually done by a "leak" of a "discussion paper". Then they sit back and see what the public response is. If people don't speak up, they'll look at bringing it in...if people complain loud and clear, the government will scoff and say it was "just a discussion paper" and "never seriously considered for policy".
I remember vividly back in the Bob Hawke days there was a "leak" of a paper from a government think tank on how to reduce the numbers of homeless people. The brilliant idea was that pensioners usually have a few spare rooms in their houses, so a government stooge would come into the old peoples homes, assess how many extra people could live there, and move homeless families in, in return for some sort of concession to the homeowners.
This caused huge outrage...my retired parents as well...and it was quickly dropped and everyone was assured it was "never going to be seriously considered as policy" and was "only a discussion paper from a meeting".
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Sorry, had to read that again. LOL, are you serious? No wonder his only legacy is skulling a beer. Forgive me, in the 80`s I was running around the lounge room playing with He-Man figurines so don't remember a great deal about Politics. Although I do remember seeing footage of Bob Hawke copping a bouncer to the head in district cricket. I found that quite amusing, especially when his glasses exploded in his face. My apologies for being a sadist and derailing the thread at the same time.