The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.
We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
We do not need mindless spending bills with no reforms attached.
As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.
Africa has no future.