Gillard for Socialist Health Care, Open Borders and Big Union Agenda

From Cliff Thies & Eric Dondero:

Elections are set for August 23, and they promise to be a doozie by Australian standards.

The Liberal-National Coalition is surging ahead of Labour in the latest poll - 17 point lead for Labour after it dumped Rudd has now vanished.

Yet another country poised to shift to the center-right in August snap election.

From news.com.au:

JULIA Gillard has taken a battering in the latest opinion poll, which shows the Coalition would win the election if it was held now.

Support for the Prime Minister and Labor has fallen dramatically while the Opposition has taken the lead in the Herald/Nielsen poll published today.

The Coalition is now ahead of Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent - a six percentage point swing against the government since the last Nielsen poll a week ago.

Aussie politics observer Cory Bernardi wrote at his blog linked by the Australian Libertarian Society:

Ms Gillard has spent twelve years in Parliament, spent years as one of the bosses at the Socialist Forum (that's where the former communists went to continue their radical agenda), and a few years with Slater and Gordon pushing Labor’s pro-union industrial relations agenda.

Her entree into politics brought some policy gems like 'Medicare Gold' and the failed border protection laws that have seen people smugglers make record profits trafficking their human cargo.

Australia Libertarians Say No to Nanny-State

The main opposition party, the Liberal Democrats appear to have a growing libertarian wing. Australia Libertarian Society member and contributor to Libertarian Republican James Fryar is running for Senate in the Northlands. Yet another Libertarian candidate has emerged. From NewsMaker; tell the world:

The Liberal Democrat candidate for Adelaide has launched a war against government meddling.

“It’s time we eliminated the wholesale intrusions of government into our lives,” says Christopher Steele, LDP candidate for Adelaide.

Chris points out, that “Right now, government is taxing us to the wall. High tax stifles everyone’s living standards and the tax squeeze on business means less employment opportunities than we’d like, too. Just as badly, government is hell-bent on taking control of our personal lives.

"We are being trounced by the Nanny State and it's time we reclaimed our freedom."

Chris believes it is vital to overturn government interference gone mad. He declares that governments have: no right to interfere in personal lifestyle choices; and no right to infringe upon any individual's economic activity.

As Chris explains “Some parties stand for some degree of economic freedom but with plenty of social constraints, while other parties stand for social freedom yet with plenty of economic constraints. Only the LDP stands for maximum freedom, both economically and socially.”

On August 21st, Australia goes to the polls and Chris says that you can strike a blow for freedom by voting LDP. Chris ends with this message: "Vote P in the upper house (LDP) and vote for the LDP candidate in the lower house in Sturt, Makin, Boothby and Adelaide."

Photo of LDP MP Sophie Mirabella, winner of the 2008 Capitalist Award.

Sex Party rejects advances by Social Conservatives

Meanwhile, the Sex Party is garnering attention for a rejection of social conservatives.

From GoogleNews July 28:

SYDNEY — Australia's flamboyant Sex Party on Thursday said it had rebuffed an approach from arch-conservative Family First to forge an unlikely electoral alliance.

Spokesman Robbie Swan said Family First, a Christian outfit which champions family values, offered to swap voters' preferences -- used when there is no outright winner -- in August 21 elections.

He said there was "no way in the world" the Sex Party, whose policies include decriminalising drugs and weakening pornography laws, would jump into bed with "diametrically opposed" Family First.

"We represent a lot of prostitutes, but we're not prostitutes in the sense that we would sell out," he told AFP.