Liberal Rule

Thanks to Gerard Henderson's article, I was alerted to a 3-part series documenting the Liberal's years under Howard. He had a good old whinge that the series was strongly biased against Howard and conservatism in general.

I agree that it did not necessarily paint a flattering picture of the Howard era - but then, one could say they were calling it like they saw it. They managed to get access to Peter Costello, Downer, Arthur Sinodinos and a host of other Liberal commentators. But I think the most telling comments were made by Ross Gittens who essential made the point that Howard encouraged rampant consumerism, and made no effort to grow the public good. Debt was essentially privatised by Costello, by running down Government debt, but fuelling private debt. And that we are paying for it now.

To be fair, they did select excerpts that showed the Liberals in a less than ideal light, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Parts 2 and 3 are probably worth a watch too -22/7 and 23/7.