Only equalled by the cynical 'Law & Order' campaign from the other side:

http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/coalition-leader-tony-abbott-promises-to-crack-down-on-gangs/story-fn5tar6a-1225898374041

and the Greens, well let's not mention their ratbaggery with a leader who knows not what he leads if at all and what was that policy again but never you worry. Talk about politicians, wobblies and sheer lack of value for money, cop this classic interview with Bob Brown, an Australian Senator, mind you:

http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/michael-smith-blog/bob-brown/20100720-10jan.html

Makes a voter wish for a dump box at the foot of the ballot form for Blue, Red and (watermelon) Green. What a waste of oxygen some of these pretenders are and at a cool $1 million a year each, which is the lowest, most optimistic estimate.

Sigh. Got to agree with the article. What were they thinking!

Putting Julia Gillard in was supposed to remove the rust from the machine and get the wheels going again and achieve something and restore confidence that the government was progressing on our concerns.

Instead we have seen another no action fizzer. Stamping your feet on the spot and whilst saying 'onwards' isn't going to fool anyone. If Rudd was 'Howard Light' Julia is 'Rudd Light' but hoping people will fall for the spin.

It's an interesting time we live in- politicians who flat out don't want to touch any issue with a 20-foot-pole themselves- and don't want to give the public any rights to do it instead, because they know that once that horse has bolted all of the pay and perks they're enjoying at the moment for doing absolutely nothing (and likely the whole reason they even entered politics) would be next on the chopping block.

I guarantee to you all that there are only two things either Gillard or Abbott (or their followers) are concerned about in this issue:
1- how to turn it into a benefit for themselves and their lobbyists
2- try to look hip jumping aboard the global warming movement
Nothing else.

Whenever someone utters the phrase 'the vast majority', you may be certain they are speaking only of their private prejudice.

Clownfish "Whenever someone utters the phrase 'the vast majority', you may be certain they are speaking only of their private prejudice."

just as those who speak for the "common good"

have an equally nefarious agenda

- to limit peoples democratic right to hold a "private prejudice"

I suppose if I mentioned that the ALP were stopped from introducing a tax on carbon by the Liberals and the Greens, would I be impolite, would I circumvent the silly hostility towards Julia?

Just asking!