{"id":604,"date":"2006-03-02T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/howard-what-the-blogs-are-saying-the-nation-breaking-news-247-newscomau\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:44:30","slug":"howard-what-the-blogs-are-saying-the-nation-breaking-news-247-newscomau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/howard-what-the-blogs-are-saying-the-nation-breaking-news-247-newscomau\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard: What the blogs are saying &#8211; The Nation &#8211; Breaking News 24\/7 &#8211; NEWS.com.au"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060307232031\/http:\/\/www.news.com.au:80\/story\/0,10117,18322558-421,00.html\">Howard: What the blogs are saying<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a Howard fan. I think he plays politics very well &#8211; possibly better than anyone in the country (and is certainly a world contender) and I&#8217;d love to have him on my side on issues I care about. I also<\/p>\n<p>I also think he&#8217;s wrong on a bunch of things (or not paying the right kind of attention to them). Some of these I think it&#8217;s possible to work on, but others are just fundamental differences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Healthcare<\/li>\n<li>Education<\/li>\n<li>Copyright and Patent legislation<\/li>\n<li>Industrial relations<\/li>\n<li>Taxation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(hrrm&#8230; some major ones there. I am quite happy though that (at least in the past) he has been active in upholding the right to choose on abortion and not giving into a certain health minister who wants to impose his moral view on the country.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say that there&#8217;s a feasible opposition. The Australian Labor party is a joke. Total discrace. I&#8217;m feeling like I could say that I feel that the Greens have a higher chance of winning government in the next two elections than the ALP.<\/p>\n<p>Way to get depressed about the political situation in .au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard: What the blogs are saying I&#8217;m not a Howard fan. I think he plays politics very well &#8211; possibly better than anyone in the country (and is certainly a world contender) and I&#8217;d love to have him on my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/howard-what-the-blogs-are-saying-the-nation-breaking-news-247-newscomau\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-9K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":938,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/24\/twitter-updates-for-2007-11-24\/","url_meta":{"origin":604,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2007-11-24","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-11-24","format":false,"excerpt":"glad to see not many people taking FF leaflets # not a short queue though # i can count to 68! # ahhh... the chaser :) # hungry # so strange, waching live tv # red fuji apples are yummy # the counting has started! # WHAT WAS THE VIBE?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Twitter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2001\/12\/10\/politics-for-publicity-and-last-weeks-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":604,"position":1},"title":"Politics for Publicity and &#8220;Last Week&#8217;s News&#8221;","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2001-12-10","format":false,"excerpt":"A Melbourne man diagnosed with cancer is bigger than the war in Afghanistan. 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