Where do the fault lines between Country Labor and the National Party lie?
Well, I suppose what has happened is that the National Party is not the old Country Party. The old Country Party used to be to a large degree closely aligned to the Labor Party, in that it had agrarian socialist policies. And the National Party has moved towards the Liberal Party in their national competition policy at any cost. Let the market solve the problem. And that’s evident with dairy deregulation. The National Party aren’t coming out there trying to re-regulate or trying to have some regulation. They are happy to see the dairy industry deregulated and they are trying to deflect onto the State Government some of the blame for that because they are not game to embrace the issue that their old Country Party would have years ago. And I suppose that is probably a significant difference. I would see that the Country Labor group is the Labor Party and therefore we have heart. We still have social issues as our main thrust – you know, all those Labor Party issues, whereas the National
