…Worry not about the “twitteratzi” ; Twitter media is increasingly driven by teenagers fleeing in droves from Face Book, a site that leaves an oft’ embarrassing finger print of opinions!

EG:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2540205/Have-11m-teens-left-Facebook-2011-New-report-claims-mass-exodus-continues-site-messaging-apps-over.html

I don't know what is happening on Twitter other than the more outrageous statements that occasionally get reported in a different part of our media world.
What I do know is that on this site, the ad hominum arguments and personal insults tend to come more often from the more conservative among us.

Graham's prejudices are showing.

After the Juliar, Ditch the Witch, and dump her at sea in a hessian bag attitudes during the generally competent three years of Gillard's prime ministership, is it any surprise that the centre-left is getting its own back.

The biggest mistake of the Gillard era was its failure to aim for full employment and too hell with deficit concerns. At close to full employment the reduced transfer payments and the increased tax collections will tend towards balancing the budget.

Anyone who think that money is a problem for a currency issuing government should read J D Alt's article on the development of the USA economy between 1939 and 1945. From starting in the depression the USA progressed to being the most productive, innovative and well directed economy ever known and that was all achieved by government planning with no concern as to where the money was coming from. Alt is an architect but a very competent economist.

>>...the generally competent three years of Gillard's prime ministership...<<

Oh, puhleeeese.

Burgeoning deficits, a train wreck of her personal industrial relations "reforms" which has resulted in small businesses being unable to afford to open on long weekends and public holidays, sharp rises in electricity and gas costs because of unsustainable renewable energy targets, the carbon tax fraud, the AWU scandal which is coming to bite her, the HSU scandal which is coming to bite Shorten, dirty deals with the Greens and a couple of incompetent independents who were subsequently too gutless to stand for re-election, thousands upon thousands of illegal migrants landing on our beaches and becoming a drag on honest taxpayers, cuts to defence spending, money squandered on school buildings, Gonski "reforms" which amount to nothing more than filling the coffers of teachers unions...and all of the funding booby traps, such as the national disability insurance scheme, which Labor left behind.

That's not what I would define as generally competent.

<<After the Juliar, Ditch the Witch...is it any surprise that the centre-left is getting its own back>>

Awwww okay, none of this would have happened if only they had been nice to Julia--what rot!

For those with short or selective memories--John Howard was variously labelled by those left of centre:
-- a “lying rodent”
--A “cold-hearted prick’’
-- “(He has) “bloodless lips of string’’, "(an) arselicker…”
-- the “dog of white supremacy” wanting “to return to its vomit"…

Why do the politically correct, thought police always accuse you of being phobic, (irrational fear or hatred of, whatever) before yelling colourful abuse at you, especially when you dare to question the theological dogma of their prophet Karl Marx or his Holy book "the Communist Manifesto?

Why do all their socialist policies always produce anti-social results?

Why do all their communist policies always produce anti-community results?

Why do they always steal from the poor & give to the rich?

Why do all their revolutionary ideals always weaken democracy & empower tyrants?

If their policy committees always contain high IQ, multiple degree, senior, university academics, why do they always get everything wrong 24/7/365?

Could it be that we are a conservative, christian nation while they are Trotskyite Termites & Bolshevik Borers, white anting our nation so that Communist China or the international socialist UN can achieve one world dictatorship?