Gee, I hope so. I cannot express in clear enough terms my utter disappointment with the ALP. They are obviously in the middle of an identity crisis and need a good lie down and a bex. Whenever the next election comes it will be a blood bath. Tories will win a majority that will keep them in Government for a long, long while. Goodbye Greens too I predict. Too scary for most marginal voters to tolerate. And they'll blame everyone but themselves - the "24 hours news cycle", the neo-liberal conspiracy, the CIA etc., etc. Never themselves, no real means of reflecting and reinvigorating themselves. Too much emphasis on the machine, terrible pre-selection processes, rigged branches, poisonous anti-business, anti-growth stances. End of an Era? I bloody hope so.

Is it coming to an end?

Yes, thanks to Gillard, without doubt the most disgraceful example of a politician in living memory. A fool, but a dangerous one.

Unions have a lot to answer for when they can promote and support people like Gillard into such positions of power. And now, we see another one trying to make it into the ranks of compromised politicians...Paul Howes, and the media can be almost exclusively take the credit for making him feel that he is someone of value with quotations almost every day, Q & A attendances every week and following on in the footsteps of Bill Shorten, another Gillard sycophant. ( but if she goes, so do they)

With the exception of Doug Cameron, all tarred with the same brush.

What a pathetic group of representatives, leaking private information to the Charge d’affairs at the US Embassy whose sole function in life appears to be writing petty little reports about petty little people to his superiors in Washington. Who hasn’t received a mention in such epistles so far? What a career diplomat he must be.

Sadly, putting Keating into the same boat as Rudd, Howard and Gillard is as great an insult as one could render any politician.

Can we please have Julia Gillard appear on the "Doctor Phil" show for psychological evaluation and correction!

Delusional, or wishful thinking! I'm not sure which, but does it really matter? Our author merely hopes that Labor will not be buried for another decade or 2.

Rexw, you've only got one thing wrong, you've got the insult going the wrong way.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12566#217257

bitey, you got closer than the article did. Up to Chifly, the ALP was a national socialist party. That is 1930's Germany, Italy & Spain, politically, but done with democracy instead of totalitarianism. Also minus the pogrom against minorities. While being socialists, they put the welfare of Australia, her people, first.

They were taken over by "INTER"national socialists, who wanted one world government, a UN, NWO.

So began the weakening of Australia inc. Stop "moving forwards", look backwards with 20/20 hindsight over the last half century or so & everything makes perfect sense. They have been "softening up" Australia inc, hamstringing it, ready for take over.

Everything we held dear, or what worked so successfully, between 1945 & 1965 has been weakened &/or destroyed, by the PC, Thought Police of the Matriarchal, Communist Regime committing acts of social, eCONomic & cultural treason.

http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/ an evil plan for failure of our nation, along with the USA, Canada, Britain, NZ, Europe & all of the western democratic capitalist world.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12566#217259

rexw, dont kid yourself Doud Cameron's old union is the metal workers, they will be wiped off the face of the earth by a carbon tax/price/ETS, E-CONomic Treason Scam & he promotes it, knowing full well the total destruction of every industry other than quarrying, tourism & servicing those 2 remaining job opprtunities, is its purpose.

And Hasbeen is correct, Comrade Keating is even worse than Comrades Whitlam, Hawke, Dillard & Krudd. He was better at the Spinganda, weasel words to "rationalise" the destruction of our industrial strength.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12566#217262

diver dan, too true, all left wing politics is a mental illness, a self loathing, self oppression system.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12566#217263

Hasbeen, your only mistake is to wish them in the wilderness for a couple of decades, the are ANTI patriotic, will always be "wreckers".

We must have a royal commission on closet communism, a senate committee on UN Australian activiteess. No Australian child will be safe until ASIO hunts down every one of them, together with all their freinds, family & jails them for life in a "labour camp", never to be released.

I think Labor's fortunes declined when Kevin didn't do much about implementing the agenda he was elected on; they plummeted when he backed down on climate change. Julia hasn't done anything to repair this.

The big puzzle is why they didn't get credit for spending (as advised by even conventional economists) to insulate us from the GFC. We having the money to spend from China buying our resources - I don't think it was the genius of politicians of whatever stripe that lead to us having the money.