Contents - 29 Sep 2007 FEDERAL ELECTION 2007: NCC policy initiatives on biofuels and Internet safety - Patrick J. Byrne EDITORIAL: Horse flu outbreak: time to face hard facts - Peter Westmore CANBERRA OBSERVED: John Howard's risky succession strategy NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Will we learn from our quarantine debacle? - Colin Teese DEFENCE: Emerging nuclear challenges for Australia - Peter Coates NATIONAL SECURITY: Another triumph for the ABC or potential calamity? - John Miller EMPLOYMENT: Offshore assets most Australians never see - Warren Reed SCHOOLS: How much should we pay teachers who don't deliver? - Mark Lopez LIFE ISSUES: 'Rosita', poster-child for pro-abortion lobby - Babette Francis UNITED STATES: Questions over Republican nomination - Jerome Appleby OPINION: Disgrace of the West's 'cognitive dissonance' - Mark Braham AS THE WORLD TURNS: libertarianism, lesbian's twins, Chinese toys, anti-Americanism Kevin Rudd's motherhood statements (letter) - Frank Bellet Kevinism or a Ruddism? (letter) - M. Gordon Facility with languages (letter) - Peter Kavanagh MP Australia needs American help with defence (letter) - Greg Byrne BOOKS: THE DAWKINS DELUSION? by Alister McGrath - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer) BOOKS: FAITH THROUGH REASON, by Janne Haaland Matláry - Valerie Renkema (reviewer) News Weekly Books

Sir,

Kevin Rudd makes yet another sweeping motherhood statement, and it makes headlines ("Rudd to confront states on pokies", The Australian, September 11, 2007). He went on to say that he "wanted to wean the states off dependency on pokies for revenue".

In the first place, the Queensland Goss Labor Government (1989-1996) - of which Rudd was chief adviser - weaned the states on to poker machines, which they now consider to be licences to print money. Personally, I believe they are a licence to steal money.

However, now Rudd wants us to believe he can "wean" the states off dependency on them for revenue.

No details of his plan. He just wants everyone to trust him as prime minister, and he'll sort it all out later.

Frank Bellet,
Petrie Qld
 
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