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...Australian Labor Party has less than a year to improve its general standing in the minds of voters. If he is to win office, leader Kim Beazley can't rely solely on the rises in home mortgage rates that would hurt borrowers and leave Prime Minister John Howard vulnerable. Nor should Beazley count on Australians giving Howard the kind of thump U.S. President George W. Bush received last week for his grim war in the Middle East. To fix its brand, as they say in the trade, Labor has to go beyond Iraq and I-rates. "We have spent...
...Labor has lacked spark and concord for most of the Howard years. Since Beazley regained the leadership last year, the parliamentary party has settled in behind him. Tanner says knocking off the incumbents will be difficult, particularly on the issue of economic management. "The bar is very high," he says of the obstacles. "We have to be seen as competent, coherent and unified?that we have a clear purpose." It's too early to tell how Labor will play the election, but Beazley and his colleagues have been road-testing their ripest ideas. In the hand-to-hand combat...
...might even start channeling him, so insistent are his claims. Does this sound familiar? Howard has lost touch with Middle Australia; he has squandered the nation's prosperity; after 10 long years, there's crumbling infrastructure, a skills crisis, the childcare shambles and extreme industrial relations laws. What does Beazley Labor stand for? Investing in the future; a fair reward for effort; building up the nation; a cleaner environment; regional security; Australian values. Howard would feel comfortable with that list?sometimes the two leaders stand behind the same white picket fence. Of course, it's the actual policies that have...
...Beazley makes a terrific 10-min. speech, whatever the occasion. But once he passes the 15-min. mark, it's even money that he'll flop. The more he warms to his subject, the less he seems aware of the audience; the old habits of a lecturer hobble him, especially on defense and military history. But there is a new side to the man. He's always been avuncular (which weakened him as a leader in some eyes). Now he's taking that image a step further by appearing more intimate and less self-conscious about addressing what politicians usually...
...Beazley addressed the Brisbane Institute about the "time squeeze," which he declared was as stressful for families as paying the bills. "Coping with the collision between work and family time is one of the toughest parts of modern family life," he said. "Because a dollar lost can be recovered. But you can never get back a precious minute lost. It's gone forever." The "time famine"?a result of clogged roads, demanding employers, inadequate childcare services and slow Web connections?would "shape the politics of the future," he said. Not only did he have a plan to reduce these pressures...