"Think about it this way; how could you sensibly debate economics, public finances, climate change or even foreign policy without having qualifications in one or more of law, economics, accounting or the sciences".

I will say what I think the average building worker without university qualifications is thinking.

They don’t like the back stabbing of Rudd, and they don’t like the squandering of billions by the hopeless Gillard.

They don’t consider the Labor party as representing workers, and they don’t like the fact that the Labor party has no policies or direction.

They have had enough of governments pandering to feminists, and enough of families being destroyed by feminist policies.

They also know that they are the ones who do most of the work, and actually get things done, while academics in universities pretend to do so.

I don't think that any one person can be across all that fields. But I agree that you need to be qualified to do certain things. I wouldn't want a tradie doing bypass surgery on me unless he was also a trained surgeon!

I haven't seen anything over the last sixty years to indicate that apart from Harold Holt, anybody, Liberal/national or Labor have shown that they have been worth even the dole in running the country. Tony certain has a very different style, but like all the others, you would have to be a bit of a fanatic to put him on your want list. He doesn't want higher taxes, yet he wants insurance. As far as I am concerned, our commonwealth tax should be enough to handle that. And to get the correct tax levels and ensure that our workers are properly looked after, we should go back to that successful 66.6% top tax, and have a no tax level of about $30,000. Unfortunately, no political party will go for that because it would restrain those people taking incomes of $x millions, and allow the workers to live properly in their own homes, that would not do. I know some of those specialists, and there are some whose common scense is questionable.

I can't help thinking the author has never voted for Labour.
The big clue came early when he said Tony was good at Finance.

BTW Vanna I'm thinking that people who vote Lib want free lemon flavoured icecream...see we can all put words into other peoples mouths. Lets look at the the real facts the ballot box.

Kenny
The biggest swing at the ballot box at the last election was actually the swing towards the informal vote, and it appears that there were many voters who didn't want Gillard or Abbot.

I would think that eventually Gillard will be exposed as being the actual fud (and best to keep her away from any knives and taxpayer funding in the interim), and either the informal vote increases at the next election, or more people will vote for Abbot to get rid of the fud.

BTW. Where do you stand on the author's attitude that only university graduates should make decisions and govern the rest.

Next the author will be saying that university academics should be given more money.

That is usually how it goes.

This scribe has as much sympathy for your alleged academia as he does for the forecasting genius of all those experts currently sitting in Woop Woop Siding watching QRN gathering steam as she passes through 31%.