[Tari, Vince]

> 
> Have to agree with Rick on this. Whilst i'd love to see PG as 
> Labour leader (& eventual PM of course) Australia seems to be 
> much more conservative these days, sticking with the status 
> quo, given the fact that the two key issues (interest rates & 
> unemployment) are in relatively good shape. (If it aint 
> broke......blah blah blah....)
> 
> The Liberals ran a clever campaign, highlighting Latham's 
> incompetency during his time as Mayor of Liverpool (local 
> government - 2 levels below Federal). The catch-cry of "if he 
> couldn't manage the local council, how can he manage the 
> country?" scared a lot of voters into avoiding him like the plague.
> 
> I think Howard has a job for life, unless his understudy 
> Costello gets the ambition bug & the numbers up to overthrow 
> him during this current term.
> 
> But in the meantime i'll be watching question time with 
> interest as i can see PG getting invloved in some fiery 
> exchanges with his counterparts.
> 
> vt
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff and Jane Scott [mailto:jscott at iinet.net.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:40 PM
> > To: Powderworks
> > Subject: [Powderworks] 7:30 Report
> > 
> > 
> > When someone said Pete was going to be on the 7:30 Report tonight, I
> > didn't think they meant he would be the entire show!
> > 
> > But it turned out to be a in-depth 30 minute examination of his
> > political campaign, and I wish now that I'd taped it!
> > 
> > It included some footage of the Byron Bay on-stage 
> > performance with Rob
> > (basically we saw the first verse of "My Country" and the last few
> > seconds of "Progress" - I'd like to see/hear the full version of
> > "Progress" in particular, as it would be an interesting thing done
> > acoustically).  There was also a bit of Rob and Paul Greene doing
> > "Secret World".
> > 
> > The other thing that really struck me was a bit where Pete 
> was out and
> > about with Mark Latham (Labor Party leader for those not in 
> > Oz).  If you
> > didn't know who was who, and were asked to pick which was the
> > experienced party leader and which was the newby with the "L" 
> > plates on,
> > you'd get them the wrong way around.  Garrett just 
> dominates any group
> > of people (I don't mean that in a negative way), and it was 
> Latham who
> > was talking inane rubbish as though he felt like he had to 
> > say something
> > but couldn't think of anything to say.
> > 
> > I'm putting money on now that Peter Garrett will be leading 
> the Labor
> > Party in the 2010 election, if not the 2007 one.
> > 
> > 
> > jeff...
> > 
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