Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  Friday, 4 January 2013

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Jenny Macklin is the picture of Dorian Gray

Like the unveiling of the picture of Dorian Gray, the evil decay of the Australian Labor Party since Hawke and Keating sold the party’s soul to the City of London revealed itself this week in Families Minister Jenny Macklin.

Justifying $60-$110 cuts in weekly income to vulnerable and stretched single-parent families, Macklin swallowed down the vomit in her mouth to claim she could live on $35 a day.

The depths to which Labor has plunged, which Macklin epitomised, are obvious by looking at Labor’s greatest leader, John Curtin, and his mentor Frank Anstey.

During the Scullin Labor Government in 1931, Curtin and Anstey furiously opposed the argument that Labor should impose the brutal, Bank of England-dictated Premiers' Plan to slash wages in the Great Depression by one-quarter.

Some Labor MPs argued that it was better a Labor government, rather than the heartless Tories, implemented the Plan, to soften the blow.

Displaying their firm commitment to principle above politics, Curtin and Anstey insisted that if Labor was to be the agent of the banks’ demands to crush the very working-class people who voted Labor into office, there was no point in Labor being in office, and the Government should resign.

“[T]his Government is crucifying the very people who raised its members from obscurity and placed them in power,” Anstey railed.

Curtin and Anstey’s opponents in the Labor Government, led by Joseph Lyons, soon afterwards caused a split and joined the fascist-sympathiser Robert Menzies in forming the United Australia Party, owned lock, stock and barrel by the banks.

However Curtin stood by his principles and spent the next decade in opposition, but was the man to whom the Australian people turned to save Australia in WWII, after the Lyons-Menzies Government left Australia virtually defenceless in the face of Japanese aggression.

Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood said today that the modern Labor Party is Labor in name only.

“This Labor government might as well all follow Joe Lyons and join forces with Tony Abbott and the Liberals, because there is no Curtin or Anstey among them,” he said.

He continued, “A true Labor government would not kick single parents to the gutter to balance the budget, but would stand up to the City of London’s demands for vicious austerity, tell the criminal ratings agencies to stick it, establish a national bank like the original Commonwealth Bank, and issue public credit to invest in new infrastructure and industries that will create wealth and jobs for everyone.

“Today, it’s the CEC, not the ALP, which continues Curtin and Anstey’s fight for principle,” he concluded.