Gillard offers Magic Pudding to Europe

Julia Gillard had barely alighted in Europe before she offered Australian aid to help prop up corrupt and inefficient government in Europe.She embodies the great Labor Magic Pudding.Europeans would not be familiar with the much-loved Norman Lindsay classic but you can bet they will dig in with relish.

The Magic Pudding is a fantasy written for children by Lindsay in 1918 just as Australia, along with the rest of the world, was emerging from the lean years of rationing which accompanied WWI. The plot revolves around the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle and Sawnoff, and Albert, the snarly, whiny pudding. Delicious Albert is devoured throughout the tale but he is never finished. He can be sliced and carved and swallowed but there is always more. Further, as one reviewer noted, the Magic is “a pie, except when it’s something else, like a steak, or a jam donut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there’s always something left over. It’s magic.” The pudding’s magical ability is just like the classic lie “there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”, it now means whatever Gillard and Labor want it to believe. Of course it is magic, the problem is that Gillard and her Labor friends don’t understand that the tale is make-believe. They think they have worked out how it is done and are now running the nation by consulting Lindsay’s mythical recipe. Since Labor came to power in December, 2007, Australia has moved from surplus to debt and the ALP has not stopped giving the money away. Money it doesn’t have, money it is borrowing at a record rate. Treasury, to Labor, is a Magic Pudding. No-one in the Labor-Green-independent minority government has a clue where the money comes from but they are determined to spend it. It is the height of arrogance, or stupidity, for Gillard to lecture anyone on how to run an economy when her government has been taking lessons from the failing European states to run up our debt. The G20 in Cannes and its accompanying business and trade union summits is just a sideshow to the real shifts of capital taking place in Asia. Worse, Australia is the envy of the world because it has all the natural resources it needs and more to export but the Rudd-Gillard government has treated its wealth with disdain and is hell-bent on penalising those who have delivered our First World lifestyle. It is slugging those who have invested in the mining industry and, through its carbon dioxide tax, is choking the life out of what remains of Australian industry. Gillard and Rudd’s desire to give away Australia’s wealth is driven by their desire to be recognised on the world stage. Rudd, in particular, sees little future in Australia after he resumes his interrupted prime ministership. He yearns to strut the global stage and has set his sights on a United Nation post. Gillard just doesn’t have a clue beyond hanging onto the power she has now, power she was handed by the trade union movement and its parliamentary representatives. The Magic Pudding is a great story but it is a children’s tale. It is good for children to have fantasies and exercise their imaginations. Australia doesn’t need children running its government however. It is in need of adults.