Turnbull responds to Rudd's essay
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In an essay published last month, Mr Rudd also accused the former Howard government of failing to prepare for the slowdown.
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has used an essay in today's Weekend Australian newspaper to reject the criticism.
He has accused Mr Rudd of acting like a "corrupt police officer" trying to blame the former Howard government for crimes it did not commit.
- Mr Turnbull has also drawn Mr Rudd's wife Therese Rein into the debate, saying she made a lot of money through the "neo-liberal" policies the Prime Minister is so critical of.
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- That is a valid point. However, I see it as a corruption of the Howard Policy of 'outsourcing'. During those years, employment agencies ceased to exist. They were replaced by government funded 'job network' centres. Anyone who has dealt with one of these (like Therese Rein operated) knows they were paid to keep people on their books - employment was incidental. It was the same policy that built ABC Learning Centres and made Eddie Groves a multi-millionare. Neo-Liberal policies like these are corrupt, face saving exercises by governments burying problems beneath a veneer of money. - post by gnaylor
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posted by Greg Naylor at
12:19 PM
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The Job Network centres may have been Liberal Party policy but I don't think that makes it neo-liberalism. And when Rudd attacked neo-liberalism he was quite sweeping in his attack, arguably including reforms taken during the Hawke / Keating years.
Therese Rein followed the rules and benefited. That does not mean that she or her PM husband can't disagree with the rules. I benefit from rules I don't agree with. Turnbull should have left it alone. Even if Rudd is writing essays that are idiotic.
I guess some of us older liberal supporters became disillusioned with Howard's blind following of George Bush - the King of the Neo-cons(ervatives) - and we cringe when we see our government putting themselves 'at arms length' of a problem by outsourcing the problem.
I do not begrudge Therese Rein benefiting from the jobs network system although it might be asked if the business was started with insider information through her husband being in Parliament.
Therese ripped off the government and profited by making sick, ill, injured and disabled people miserable forcing them into jobs that made their conditions worse.
Making that amount of money from govt contracts is obscene. There should be a cap on profits arising this way.
Did she end up quitting like her pre-election promise, or is she still merrily living high on the hog at taxpayer expense?
KEVIN Rudd's family finances are heading in a different direction from those of most people as the global recession helps to add as much as $300 million to the annual turnover of his wife Therese Rein's job-placement company in Britain.
Industry experts familiar with her main operating company predicted yesterday that its turnover would more than treble in the next three years from about pound stg. 60million ($130 million) to pound stg. 200million. And, all within the system!
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