David,
You make a very convincing argument as to why parties and their hypocrisy and negative personality pap is the problem with politics in Aust.

I view elections as opportunity to employ some one to manage my country.
Based on this very unconvincing piece I hope you enjoy your next career.

Hold on to your hat. It is only just the wee hours in the election time, well so to speak. Could be said that both parties are doing the Mexican stand-off? Perhaps the majors parties are anxiously waiting for the time to reveal all to come nearer to 'that time'- the elections. Smaller parties, pressure groups will be doing a lot of slinging-off in order to crab a seat in the big house. Sort of like putting a lay-bye down and hopefully getting it. The major parties will fight back to keep those groups at bay. It is like a thorn in your head that just will not go away.

Fighting for a seat or the battle between the major parties need to be approach in an entirely different way. To win the position of Prime Minster one must not bag the other. The approach must be one of sincerity, honesty and the must important thing not to do, is get up and talk about how bad, and distrustful or how your opponent has stuffed up is your parties eyes.

Put it this way. If you had an agent come into your home and all he/she did was bag, down talk another agent/s. He/she spend most of the time with rhetoric, insulting, empty rhetoric hoping that this form of rhetoric oratory will some how be taken on and swallow by you, as eloquence language. And that your way with words will win the hearts of those folk.
This is totally an out model way of rhetoric bombast and turgidity form. Added to that this type of ideology styles and bodies its way in such grandiloquence that is has no place in to days political positioning. People are far more educated and do not like to be view at as an idiot. Just like the agent coming into your home and continues to fashion him/herself in such a form, clearly demonstrates that he/she has not got a clue. He/she does not quite know, to what he/she stand for. In fact it shows that he/she is desperate.

Further to my last post.

As he/she leaves your place, you will be left with all the wrong things about all the others. An other message is that there is no message at all and leave one with an emptiness hence 'why you should vote him/she in as your agent'. This type of tactics put a very bad taste in your mouth.

The fact of the matter is that most people - those rusted on to one party or the other; those who rubbish one side of politics, but not the other - will have no say in which party wins.

About 5%-7% of voters (the swinging voters) who don't care care about idealogy will decide who wins.

You are right Leigh.

And that 5 - 7% will, at this election, simply choose competence!

They've tried conservatism, aspiration and grand vision and saw they failed.

And now to the match of the day!
keith one
Leigh nil