From Andrew Bolt, a list of the golden oldies that Labor has learned not a thing from. The same party that is trying to shut down an inquiry into union corruption and is trying to make the Parliament a shambles, as they have tried to do with the entire country. Apparently, the AFR‘s star reporter, Laura Tingle, is an ALP supporter as well. There must be something in Fairfax water coolers that does it. Anyway, the list:

– let in 50,000 undocumented illegal immigrants.
– racked up record deficits, mostly through spending on trash.
– killed overnight a major export – cattle to Indonesia.
– broke a promise and hit Australia with a carbon tax that cost jobs and raised power prices without making a difference to temperatures.
– invented a mining tax that raised almost no money while scaring off investment.
– scrapped on industrial watchdog at the request of militant unions, unleashing a wave of intimidation of employers.
– punished critical media outlets with a hostile media inquiry.
– proposed a draconian state-appointed media supercop to police all commercial media outlets and even blogs, with penalties including imprisonment.
– designed on the back of a beer coaster a $43 billion broadband network that was unaffordable, blew its budget and ran hopelessly behind schedule.
– spent $16 billion on overpriced school halls, many not actually needed.
– put free insulation in people’s homes that killed four installers and set off scores of house fires.
– sacked two of its prime ministers before crashing to a huge defeat.
– spied on the Indonesian president’s wife, later triggering a diplomatic scandal.
– incited a mini race riot by Aborigines on Australia Day.
– offended China by referring to its leaders as “rat f…ers”.

There’s more, of course, but this will do for now.