So Tony Abbott is the new prime minister. The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments delivered this outcome with the narrow self-interest of its MPs and mafia-like faction heads and its desperation to prove itself as the best managers for the billionaire class.
Abbott's election will bring an escalation in attacks from the ruling class on the rest of society, attacks that the ALP laid the groundwork for through their policies of cutting welfare for single parents, extending the Northern Territory intervention and income management for Aboriginal people, and stripping billions of dollars from higher education, to name just a few.
When Rudd lurched dramatically to the right with his “PNG solution” on refugees, it screamed out to the public: Labor agrees with Tony Abbott on... READ MORE
