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A good start : Comments

By Graham Young, published 9/9/2013

Many of the media organisations concentrated on policies and facts this election, but in truth elections are about trust and tendencies.

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I cannot agree that the party that implemented the NDIS is "philosophically lightweight". All I remember are those Howard years when the plight of the disabled was not on the agenda, let alone a priority. Let us hope that those once deaf ears are now listening and that the promises around DisabilityCare will be fulfilled by this new government.
Posted by estelles, Monday, 9 September 2013 12:14:46 PM
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Hi Cameron,

Not sure where you get your figures from, but looking at election results going back to 1996 the coalition has won 5 times, and Abbott's first preference result at the moment is the second highest, and only .02% short of the 2004 result,which is the highest. Further counting could change that.

It is unequivocally a very good result.

As for Swan winning that award, he won it because of his predecessors and despite himself. Unless you can tell me what policy change it was that he made that improved the efficiency of the Australian economy he can't lay claim to it.

Pelican, you can only point to a few fringe players on the right who have abused Labor, whereas the abuse of the Liberals by Labor has been from the mainstream - from the PM down, and including a slew of media commentators who are also high-ranking ALP operatives, like Bob Ellis, or Catherine Deveny.

It was a clear Labor strategy and it blew up in their face.
Posted by GrahamY, Monday, 9 September 2013 12:44:38 PM
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the reality is that Abbott won the last election. Two independants decided to put their hatred and self interest in front of their electorates. Pity we were not able to see the smirks wiped off their face in Saturday night. I suppose it was bad enough seeing Rudd still claming some sort of victory after Labours worst result for decades. The Government was illegimate and incompetent and Rudd just added to that with more flips than the pancake parlour.Hopefully we now have a Government of some substance where instead of aboriginal politics something is actually done, instead of wasteful spending some restraint will be shown, instead of 'gay'marriage we will stick to normal marriage, instead of backflips we will have real policy and scrap the idiotic carbon tax. Finally hopefully we have some grown ups instead of the incestous Labour party who still just don't get it.
Posted by runner, Monday, 9 September 2013 12:45:14 PM
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Thanks Graham, your views are interesting; who could you have voted for? Guess we'll never know. As a person who wanted neither Abbott nor Rudd as our 'dear leader', I'm now emerging from the past depressing weeks and feeling more like "2016 or double dissolution, bring it on"!
I'm most interested in your comment "He [Abbott] has a moral base that doesn't appear to have changed in at least 30 years". Morality remained the big, unspoken issue throughout the campaigns of the ALP and the LNP Coalition.This must change!
Having been Minister for Health in the Howard Government, prior to our having Ministers for Mental Health, our Prime Minister-elect has, one assumes, intimate knowledge of our most vulnerable and neglected persons, the some 650,000 severely mentally ill, suffering schizophrenia, bipolar and severe affective disorders. Their life expectancy is now 55 years. The MHCA stated,(2009), fewer than 40% receive ANY specialised care necessary for survival. A 30 year lower life expectancy than I/you expect results from greater numbers of natural deaths (from antipsychotic medication causing cardiac congestion) and suicide rates are increasing every year...now more than double road deaths.
These people...and trachoma/blindness among remote indigenous communities...demand your ethics, morals, Christian beliefs come first in moral legislation. Don't enable professional women who bear a child to be able to' maintain their lifestyle' with the $75,000 you intend to give them; they will survive well without it. Increase taxes proportionately so that we all pay enough to improve all serious health/hospital shortcomings. We demand ethical leadership.
Posted by carol83, Monday, 9 September 2013 1:25:16 PM
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OLO is going to be very quiet for a while, as the right wingers and the religious extremists; now have no reason for their whinging.
Posted by Kipp, Monday, 9 September 2013 3:00:30 PM
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As I have said in all the various surveys you have done Graham, I have no preference for either Labor or Liberal. Labor getting less favour from me because of their manifest stuff ups and knee jerk reactionism. The glaring example was insulation. Those who who know about the safety aspects of insulation were either not consulted or not listened to. The building industry and any person with a scany knowledge of physics would know that foil was wrong. What they did as political party generally was just appalling.

Nuff said about Labor. Now, the spectre is different. I am of the opinion we have the re-incarnation of Thatcherism in Australia waiting in the wings, ready to blossom
Posted by renew, Monday, 9 September 2013 3:02:00 PM
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