A Decade of leadership, PM Howard thanks the faithful

There was little sign of triumphalism at last night's Coalition celebration of 10 years in power but there were many grand words of praise for John Howard and the party faithful.

While a number of speakers recited the achievements of the Howard-Costello Government, the Prime Minister was quick to remind his colleagues of the danger of losing sight of the Australian people.

"The golden rule of Australian politics is not to get too full of yourself, to understand that you are there to serve the Australian people, not to tell them how good you are," he told a packed Great Hall inside Parliament House in Canberra.

Meanwhile in the haters camp, the pot (and other utensils) were getting stuck into the kettle.

On the 10-year anniversary of the Howard government, and of Senator Brown's own entry into parliament, the environmental campaigner said Labor was trying to swing to the right but had lost its way.

"I think the opposition has lost its way and I think it is going to get worse," Senator Brown said. "The indications are that the opposition thinks if it moves to the right it will do better.

What indications you ask, why it must be the focus groups and opinion polls that John Howard refuses to obsess over, but no we can't learn anything from that wretched Howard.

"No, it needs to move back to the humanitarian politics that Labor once stood for and it easily could." The Greens leader is celebrating a decade in his job and predicts his party could govern the country one day.

Yes Labor, listen to comfortable-in-opposition Brown, don't worry about the fact that the current government doesn't have any 'humanitarian' politics, yet they keep winning. Humanitarian politics are the way to go, troops out, socialism in, tax the rich, protect the never-heard-of frog, multiculturalism, rights for terrorists, bend, bend, this is what the nation wants.

"We have got credentials for that, we've got the economic, the environmental, the social policies which are attendant to that. "And we've got a terrific long forwarded trajectory of UN politics which just is not there with either the government or the opposition in 2006."

Does anyone know what the hell that means? More wishful thinking from another hang-onto-labors coat tails.

Democrats leader Lyn Allison said it was unlikely there would be a change of government at the 2007 election, but that her party would regain the balance of power in the Senate.

"I think Labor needs to lift its game very substantially," she told reporters. "We are not going to get a change of government unless there is strong leadership in Labor and a serious look at how they can be different to the government, how they can address the government's failings.

Sorry Lyn, your on your own, no time for unity or alternatives, they are too busy knifing each other in the back and squabbling over left overs to think about the country.

"Too often we've seen Labor fall into line with the government on economic issues in particular." Senator Allison said Labor had a lot of work to do, as did the Democrats.

One thing the haters have got right 'unlikely there would be a change of government at the 2007 election'.

Here's to hoping we never have to experience Browns humanitarian politics or complicated trajectories up the UN's backside.

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