We're going to miss him. Pvednes fucked around with this message on 11-24-2007 at 11:09 AM.
All the Aboriginals need to do to achieve self-determination is to bloody well take responsibility for their own lives, and as such stop their campaign of autogenocide.
The intervention effort has bipartisan support--we can either intervene, or we can let them die.
The issue that lost the Coalition the election is industrial relations--the WorkChoices scheme did not sit well with the majority, (despite being really quite a good idea) and so lost them the election. There's precedent for it as well--Stanley Bruce lost both the prime-ministership and his own seat in 1929 for exactly the same reason. The only Prime Minister aside from John Howard to ever do so.
God help you all.
He needs to get back into the studio straight away and make a follow up to "Diesel and Dust".