tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459352356656088020.post40467755580673156..comments2023-11-05T20:11:12.847+11:00Comments on Labor View from Bayside: Ken Henry postscriptKevin Renniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873737997935813248noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459352356656088020.post-34411399767275378772008-11-25T20:28:00.000+11:002008-11-25T20:28:00.000+11:00HiI'm puzzled by your use of the term "white-antin...Hi<BR/><BR/>I'm puzzled by your use of the term "white-anting". Doesn't this mean invisible damage, causing some apparently sound structure to collapse without warning? Which is exactly what happened to several banks and other institutions earlier this year, thanks to an accumulation of unwise decisions by their traders and executives. Indeed, the whole international economy has already been chewed to pieces by white ants. <BR/><BR/>There is now a clear need to rebuild confidence, and the words and actions of the Federal Opposition may well be unhelpful in this regard. But to my mind they are not like white ants at all; because they are not chewing away in the darkness but seeking maximum publicity for their point of view. And if this point of view itself causes a further collapse, this collapse will not be a sudden and surprising event but a slow and visible decline. Perhaps if I can suggest another Australian simile, it is more like the rotting timbers being noisily kicked over by irresponsible kangaroos.Richard Veryardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04499123397533975655noreply@blogger.com