echidna,
>>the whole article is a vicious character assasination from someone who hates Kevin Rudd and others in the government. Genuine criticism and analysis of political leaders is welcome but ranting is a waste of time and designed to mislead.
Unless you want to latch on to this as Liberal party propaganda you can't take this stuff seriously.<<

You are correct of course. Kevin has done a sterling job, and it has been a long awaited joy for working families get some relief from escalating food and fuel prices, electricity costs, interest rates, hospital waiting lists, the school infrastructure pragramme that deliver $2500 per square meter buildings for $25000 per square meter, pink bats to keep us warm and cool, except for the kids who died during installation. Not to mention the ever growing influx of refugees that catch a plane to the place they catch the boat from, and the implementation the ETS and Broadband is something for us to look forward to, after they have fixed the carnage of what they have already delivered to us. Finally thanks Kev for bringing the word "billion" to my attention, I have heard it so often during your governance that it feels like an old friend, as opposed to a fantastic amount of money that I previously associated with top shelf corporate takeovers, Europe and America. Now Australia deals in billions like it is chicken feed.

Kevs Labor predecessors were lame in comparison, they only gave us the Commonwealth bank, transcontinental railway, workers comp, social security, Snowy Mountains scheme, medibank, free university, indigenous land rights, national super scheme, etc etc etc.

Give Kev and his talented band of ex lawyers a go, you know they care about us; it is plain to see by their works.

Kenny, the purpose of presidential politics is to fool you into thinking that the party itself is not the problem, the corrupt, incompetent, brand name that it is.

"The King is dead, long live the King"

The red/green/getup/labour coalition is rotten to the core, changing the leader is exactly the same as rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking "Titanic", no different at all, they have not changed their policy, principles, or style, for 5 decades, that i know of.

The Liberal/National coalition are not much better, but at the moment they are the least worst of the 2 "Major Mistakes".

Arjay, spot on, why can't they ever try to reduce spending instead of increasing taxes.

J L Deland, Hopefully the red/greens will be removed from the senate & replaced with real minor parties & independents. There are plenty to choose from.

http://www.democrats.org.au/

http://www.australiafirstparty.com.au/cms/

http://www.ldp.org.au/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night

http://www.heineraffair.info/

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/nonedarecallit_conspiracy.pdf

http://australianpolitics.com/parties/list.shtml

echidna, great points but you failed to say anything yourself, please do? Maybe we can all agree to disagree about some things, agree on others & maybe all learn something in the process of debate.

Hasbeen, accurate as usual.

pelican, come on, Gillard & Tanner are both from the Communist, Anarchist, Socialist factions, even worse than Krudd or Swan whose inertia is caused by being unable to satisfy both the loony, left or ordinary Aussies, like the rest of us, simultaneously.

what the left needs right now is for the red/greens to be dragged kicking & screaming into the ACCC for "False Advertising" as they always were Communist, Anarchist, Socialists, then they could be forced to rename themselves "the reds" & Gillard, Tanner, Wong, Bligh et al could join them.

There goes the neighbourhood. Sane discussion derailed by raving right-wing loonies, yet again.

A discussion being derailed by a right wing contributor is at least better than the country being derailed by a hairspary addicted dictator who must have all opposing views silenced. Seems he has sent censorship generals here to try and intimidate people from having a viewpoint. Maybe all the paid up Eastern European members of his twitter account lol.

formersnag, there is nothing here to debate. It has all been said and said again and again.

The missus, hard to see how you are being censored. The usual right wing winge, poor me, noone let's me speak, woe is me.

Good luck debating how awful and mean Kevin Rudd is, again and again, and sharing the suffering you have faced under the current government. I want something a bit deeper and I won't find it here!

plantagenet, i agree with you about the article & the "possibility" that the red/green/getup/labour coalition led by Krudd, could turn it around before the next election, but you are incorrect, to suggest there is anything wrong, or unpopular about Tony Abbott.

Haven't you ever heard of the DLP?

The Liberal/National coalition don't need to win over the type of "swinging female voter" you are talking about. Radical, Extreme, Loony, Left, Lesbian, Fauxmanistas are just as unpopular with "Real Women" as they are with "Real Men". They are Communist, Anarchist, Socialists who don't even vote getup/labour, but vote red/green & only grudgingly give their preferences to getup/labour.

They will never vote #1 or even preference the Conservatives.

Repealing the Anti Family Law act of 1975 would be extremely popular with Ex Labour voters, all of the men & many of the women as well. Ditto for outlawing "abortion on demand" without valid excuse.

Tony Abbott has already denounced "Comrade Conroy's" Internet censorship, because the previous "Howard" government had an extremely, popular & simple solution. Provide a free download, filter to any family that wants one. Funny that sensible, practical, solutions, are always derided as populist by the loony, left?

Haven't they ever heard of a quaint old fashioned thing called democracy, where the majority, as opposed to minorities, rule? There is a difference between being tolerant of minorities and bankrupting your nation financially, morally, ethically, to pander to every nutcase's whim.

diver dan, yes, a "sour grapes" diatribe, but please say something yourself dan? About anything we could debate.

Mr Denmore, Howard is a "clever politician" just like all the others, good at, "wedge politics" "dog whistling" but "2 wrongs don't make a right". Howard did not "target" minorities, he just did not "slobber all over them" like the red/green/getup/labour coalition does. Ask Noel Pearson how he feels about "Aboriginal Welfare" loony, left style?

What good is an apology for past abuse if you are still continuing it in the present, or some silly, "welcome to country" ceremony to a black fella with no home or job?