Budget we had to have

By JONATHON HOWARD

IT WAS the budget Australia had to have, says former senior Australian Test Cricket Umpire and Warwick resident, Lou Rowan, who has spoken in support of the Coalition Government’s recent slash and burn budget.
Mr Rowan, 90, slammed unions, the Greens and Labor for their acceptance of national debt and failing to plan ways to reduce the borrowing.
He said he now fears the Coalition’s lashing, led by the Opposition, press and public; could result in a re-elected Labor party.
“The decades of control and direction of Labor by unions has conditioned Australians, particularly our youth, to the belief and acceptance of a life of entitlement,” he said.
“What remains of what was once a significant labour force is (one of) the highest paid in the world and will soon be the least engaged as production continues to decline.”
Mr Rowan said he views today’s Labor Party as an “over-exposed mishmash of performers seen daily on morning TV shows”.
“Most of whom present themselves as world authorities on all things known to man and God, and some matter not yet disclosed,” he said.
“True Labor stalwarts are aghast at what today’s Labor, the Greens and Labor-leaning independents have done to Australia.
“These people give every indication of accepting national debt even in the trillions of dollars.
“My genuine fear is that even with the debts and the memory of the two worst prime ministers and treasurer our country has known, such is the pathetic state of politics in Australia; Labor may well be again elected.”