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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Auspol May - Crisis on Infinite Australias
 
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Sticko
Nov 24, 2007
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Mr Chips posted:

I'm not sure how people could be describing for Nick Xenophon as "right wing", most of his policy principles are vague but seem to support harm minimisation for drugs, state ownership of essential utilities, federal ICAC, strong personal privacy laws, no university fee deregulation etc etc. The kind of things that would get News Ltd shrills screeching about him being a lefty.

Off the top of my head, recent support for the ABCC and weakening penalty rates, although he has softened on the penalty rates (and Labor is not much better). Ever since he showed up in SA, he always seemed pretty centrist, but since I've been out of the country, it seems the whole country has moved to the right, and he went along for the ride.

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