Graham,

There is a fault in the system--the text of the article does not appear when it is selected.

Firstly we need to praise Tony Abbott. He exposed the hollowness of Kevin Rudd's leadership and kept Julia Gillard honest by forcing her into a minority government.
He was the opposer we needed, but he is not the leader we now need.
Enter Malcolm Turnbull MarkII.
Admittedly he made a bit of a mess during his first shot, but I suggest he will have learned and be the better for the experience. And on the core issues facing Australia, I think he would show leadership as well as reinstating a certain stature to the nation's top job.
On global warming and the carbon tax, he has argued sensibly for a degree of "risk management". The jury is still out on causes, but surely no one can deny that ecological changes are afoot in the world today.
On refugees, I would hope for an end to the wishful thinking that we can deal with them by hiding our head in the jungles of Malaysia or the sands of Nauru. Or the sands of Christmas Island for that matter.
I would expect to see the worst excesses of the NBN challenged and some form of mining tax or resource rent scheme kept in place.
Turnbull might be a wealthy man, but he does not appear to be dipped in greed like so many in the upper corporate percentile.

There are no "right wingers" or "conservatives" in Australian politics and no Australian politician can be seen to act according to an underlying ideology, ideology is an impediment to people who need to be able to about face on a seconds notice.
What would a conservative conserve anyway?

A conservative would ensure the rich get richer and the rest just tag along.

THanks OzBib. I got some emails on it and have fixed the problem. It was to do with the formatting of the article and how that interacted with the algorithms that drive the site. Generally the article can be read if you click on the "All" button, even when the formatting is the problem.

Apologies to Will for accidentally delaying his article.

Wow...so, what the author is saying is that more and more young people don't think, but instead vote with their naive understanding of how to fix issues.

So really this article is about a failure of society to eductate their children.