Govt demands potential Qantas buyers to guarantee jobs

That's right, while it lasts. They don't care what happens beyond their time in office. By the time the resources run out, they'll be long gone, while the rest of us will have to live with the consequences of their environmental vandalism.
 
Conservatism is only ever interested in short-term solutions.
"Let's sell coal to everyone! We'd be mad if we didn't."
"What do we do when we run out of coal?"
"We'd run out?"

"Let's sell Telstra to recover our foreign debt."
"Next time we're in debt, what will we sell then?"
"Next time?"
 
Conservatism is only ever interested in short-term solutions.
"Let's sell coal to everyone! We'd be mad if we didn't."
"What do we do when we run out of coal?"
"We'd run out?"

"Let's sell Telstra to recover our foreign debt."
"Next time we're in debt, what will we sell then?"
"Next time?"

Here here , and not to mention the thought of selling yellow cake to countries who havent signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaties ( or whatever the fuck they are ) nice one troll boy , you can have ANY government selling everything a country owns and of course you will have a good economic stance in the short term , but in the long term , what will become is anyones guess.
BTW ......how much is Australia's foreign debt now , quite a bit from memory .
Maybe if labour win, at least they can adopt the Tenacious D approach and fuck us all gently heh heh :p