Julia Gillard must be flat out practicing the phrase "may we say God save the Queen but nothing with save Bill Shorten's Mother in Law"

Tony pulls a billion dollars out of his head for a hospital in Tas; no wonder there's a black hole in costings.
I think they would be better off with Turnbull.
That may be a little hard to do now that july has set the trend by going to an election to justify a new leader.
The greens and wilkie have shown real independance by making their own decisions. Katter and belchin jo must be twins.
It is amazing how quiet the womens movement around the country have been. I think July would be simpathetic to women. No doubt thats what Tony's paid womens scheme was about.

Tony pulls a billion dollars out of his head for a hospital in Tas; no wonder there's a black hole in costings.
579.
That black hole was dug by Labor & going by evidence from the past we can rest assured that a conservative outfit will fill that black hole & pay for that hospital as well. I'd like to see Labor do a stunt like that. Highly unlikely I'd say.

Business! How I hate that word.

It brings to my mind a decadent picture of paneled boardrooms where well-dressed moneygrubbers spend their lives plotting how to rip off the majority of people within any nation so that they can enjoy huge salaries, share issues, MacMansions, and mixing with other people similarly dedicated to greed and elitism.

Surely it's time that we renounced the concept of business and set up a world that protects the environment, that ensures equality, that encourages people to satisfy their creative skills, that puts the concept of war on the scrapheap and makes greed a dirty word.

But I'm not holding my breath.

I wish you twits would get it in your head that when you sign that promise to join a politicial party, "I promise to agree with the decisions of the majority", you are saying that you have no integrity or no pride in your integrity, and undoubtidly, not too much intelligence, and that's what we have in parliament. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter which one of the existing party is elected in, the public will see that they are incompetemt, not very intelligent and probably not very honest, and seek to replace them next time round. With a lot of luck, a new party of intelligent people with integrity and a lot of courage will break the drought, and bring into parliament an intelligent and prosperous government, I live in hope, but the fanatics will still be raving on. The only treasurer and Prime Minister we have ever had, was Harold Holt, from 1958 as treasurer, and Prime Minister until his misterous "drowning", " was taken by a shark", " was taken by a submarine" in 1967. Unfortunatrly all honest outspoken members of parties in parliament are generally found a plumb position, where they would like best, "A position in Ireland or the vatican" have beem some in the last 20 years.

it doesn't matter which one of the existing party is elected in,
Merv09,
So what you're saying is that it doesn't matter that the Coalition filled the coffers over 9 years & Labor emptied them in just 1.
I fail to see your rationale there. As Pauline would say, please explain ?
I for one feel that getting a smaller pay packet for the same job in the same position simply due to amalgamation under Labor does matter to me.