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I see your point. But I think the current terror laws he brought in are fine. As long as we don't go down the same track as the USA have with the patriot act then I think we will be fine. I am not %100 sure if the new terror laws assisted all that much today as I read that they did the raids under normal search warrants but I can see how they would help us, the Australian public in the future with the correct intelligence. I am willing to give a little if it saves some idiot blowing up the opera house or setting off a bomb at the commonwealth games etc. I don't have anything to hide from the government. I am sure you would agree if you had to go to your wife's or daughters funeral after some dude set off a bomb in the middle of town. Don't get me wrong we should look at every piece of new law that the govnt brings in to combat terrorist carefully but all in all I do trust john Howard and his govnt to do the correct thing buy us. Why would he do anything else? I don't think we have the culture there is in the USA political system, for now.
As far a IR reform.......that's a whole new can of worms. The idea behind the changes are to allow small the medium businesses hire staff and expand which will stimulate the economy, the current system doesn't push that and scares employers off doing that. The majority of major change the Howard govt has brought in in the last 10yrs I think has been positive to the economy.
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