My bet is, the merry band of red necks will marry labor for a day, following which time Abbott will use the our merry band to plant his political IED's. Abbotts belief is they are worth more dead than alive.

In reality what we are witnessing is reserve grade bench sitters playing their first game in the big league: Life is great "mooing" in the sunny holding pen. But sadly, entry to the processing room is via the slaughter floor.Its all too sophisticated.

Welcome to the real world: MOOOO.or is it Baaaaa.

The independents appear to be uninformed about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and the NBN.
Regarding policies formulated to control alleged AGW and socalled greenhouse gas emissions, and to develop renewable energy, the independents appear to be unaware that such policies are based on a false premise, namely, the hypothesis that AGW is caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Despite over 20 years of searching by the IPCC and many socalled climate scientists, the hypothesis has not been proved.
The proposition that reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions will slow down AGW, is an assertion. There is no irrefutable scientific evidence to prove that reducing such emissions would have any significant effect on AGW.

Furthermore, the costs of renewable energy relative to coal-derived are about three times for wind power and ten times for solar power, making it irrational to subsidise their development and production . Consequently, spending billions on CO2 emission reduction and renewable energy would be pointless. Both of the major political parties have erred grossly in pursuing such policies.

Regarding the independents' desire to upgrade to wideband internet in their electorates, they would be naive to think that this could best be achieved by supporting Labor's NBN proposal. Implementation of Labor's NBN proposal would be extremely wasteful, as it would entail the scrapping of the existing fixed telephone line and HFC cable networks. These network types are being used to provide wideband internet not only in Australia, but in the USA and Europe. In fact, the Telstra and Optus HFC cables can be upgraded at little cost and time to provide 100 megabits per second, the same speed as the NBN, to over half of Australian internet users at a much lower price than the NBN.
The provision of wideband internet in regional areas does not have to be restricted to the NBN technology, as more cost-effective alternative technologies would be available

Richard may overlook that the government is not the parliament and visa versa and while Julia Gillard is seeking to promote some railway the truth is that only the s.101 Inter-State commission can determine this. Oops this was discontinued since 1987 to allow pork-barrelling by the governments since!
It amazes me that with my crummy English, as a CONSTITUTIONALIST, I seem to be the only person who really understand/comprehend what is constitutionally appropriate, see my blog at http://www.scribd.com/InspectorRikati for a set out of the relevant constitutional matters regarding this issue of commissioning a person to form a government. Who will form the next government has nothing to do with the majority in the Parliament as it is a prerogative power exercised by the Governor-General and so WITHOUT the advise of the Prime Minister!
Neither Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott or for that anyone else elected for the House of Representatives are Members of Parliament until after the return of the writs when they take up a seat! There is no hung Parliament because the only members are the Senators at this time. And, back in 1901 E. Barton was commissioned to form a government without any Parliament existing and was subsequently elected. Don’t confuse the role of a government with that of the Parliament, and I for one having campaigned for long for electors to vote for INDEPENDENTS to bring about a lesson to the major political parties am satisfied they are getting their message.
On 19 July 2006 I defeated comprehensively the Commonwealth that compulsory voting is unconstitutional and while I do not oppose voting I oppose any form of compulsory voting and the Court upheld my cases! This my blog also displays. Voting is our constitutional rights but in the way we desire and not hijacked by politicians dictating how we should vote! See also my website http://www.schorel-hlavka.com. As for the Greens as a CONSTITUTIONALIST I view that some of their alleged issues are a constitutional nonsense. Do I need to say more?

Why would anyone just run off and vote for an 'Independent' for no other reason than they don't belong to a political party. The majority of 'independents' in fact belong to the 'RAVING LUNATICS PARTY' with their one issue such as "the local council wont cut my nature strip the way I want it, so vote for me in the Senate."