Hail our Saviour upon his Great Big White Horsie, the hysterical, ultra conservative, right wing religious nut job embracing the People Skills of Tea Party Moonbats..Behold O Devoted Brethren..scene 10 act 45.. band ready..tra de dah..we present..wait for it..The Wabbott of Libya.

“By weakening the focus and resolve of the government, over time, the Gillard Government will continue to drop the ball on the day-to-day economic management of the country's affairs.”

Credit where credit is due. Peter Coulson raises some good points. Gillard’s university activist past is starting to show, in my view. On the plus side, she's destroying brand Labor like they did in NSW.

B.P. Terpstra

I think it boils down to the simple probability that Julia and co have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING and just jump to whatever publicity stunt they can without planning for it.

If we had a do nothing govt; there would not be anything to complain about.
Thats why toni is so popular.

the best Government is that which governs least, where 'least' is a concept much like darwin's misunderstood 'fittest.'

thank you for reminding us why the conservative interpretation of the classical theory is inadequate for dealing with complex environmental problems; or the unravelling of the 'knitting', to put it in your terms.

Re; The Howard and Costello legacy
Between them they allowed the profligacy of the banking system which made it necessary for the quick thinking Labor Government to introduce the customer guarantees. Those guarantees and other government policies and programmes prevented the worst potential affects of the GFC in Australia. Too many people do not give the government credit for those policy which were not particularly wasteful and in a downturn even waste can be beneficial as Keynes pointed out. (See last few pages of Chapter 10 in The General Theory). Too often the lack of though by business leaders and mainly conservative politicians and commentators stands in the way of sensible solutions to economic problems.

I wrote to the then Government in 1998/9 warning that their policies would lead to an asset bubble and they did.

Their policies also attempted to reverse the decline in the influences of religion and they did that by substantially increasing Federal Government funding for so called independent schools, thus causing more divisions in society, and by introducing the diabolical system of chaplains in schools, rather than more competent counsellors or other potentially better solutions such as discussion of philosophical questions from an early age. I prefer Terry Lane's thought that,"..as long as religious delusion persists and flourishes just so long will we live in peril"