Gee that is a good idea Chrys.

Labor can try to move into the fairy territory, now occupied by the greens. That should boost their vote to, oh about 8%, just like the greens.

I suppose you could add a few rusted on dills, & perhaps reach 10%. Every election just a few more of the true Labor supports of old recognise a labor party that has become the toy of academia, & the overpaid public servants, & wants nothing to do with real people, other than to con their vote out of them.

Like a badly aimed billiard ball, labor is cannoning around bouncing from pillar to post, & getting absolutely no where.

Yes go left old party, & die in the wilderness, you have out lived your usefulness.

Graham Richardson said it all in 'The Australian' this morning. Until the ALP recognises that their love affair with the Greens and the inner city people who identify with the Greens is killing them, they have no hope. To put the same thing another way, if the ALP goes to the next election with the carbon tax, they'll be slaughtered.

Energy prices are rocketing upwards. Most Australians want to be able to use their heaters in winter and air conditioners in summer at reasonable cost. "If the power comes from a coal-fired power station, so be it" says Richo. He might also have noted that every time some idiot local council decides people can't build near the coast, the ALP/Green vote drops again.

Mr Stevenson is as deluded as Labor if he thinks the ALP needs to move more left.

Just how far would that be? To the Italian GPS co-ordinates, the Greek Co-ordinates or the Obama Dream Team, who has just been outed for hiring 100% of the over 100 new attorneys to E Holder's Justice Department because they were leftists or extreme leftists, some of whom had never seen the inside of a court room in their entire working life as leftist organisers. One minor point, this type of hiring strategy is illegal.

Or maybe the ALP should send a fact finding mission to Spain where they can find that for every tax-subsidised Green job seven others were lost to UN sponsored science.

Or maybe to the left side of France where the female Mayor of one community is not allowed to enter the suburb because she is -- you guessed it female. Or where you can be killed by a legal migrant for being Jewish & French.

Hasbeen is correct.

Chyrs reflects the lefts ignorance and blindness. She basically concludes 'What if Labor ‘seizes the day’ and works to win back the disenfranchised left?' The mad hatter Katter got twices many votes as the immoral Green party. The people turned to the 'right' not the left. It is the embracing of the Greens that has led to Labours downfall. Great to see that after decades of socialist indoctrination in schools the people have rejected this failed secular dogma. A number of strong believers in the LNP. I hope the Labour party continue to embrace the Greens ensuring many more conservative victories.The latte sippers in Canberra might thing social engineers are champions but the general Aussie has rejected regressive stone age policy of the Greens.

Why must it always be about winning?
In the early days of the Federation, Labour (including several Labor leaders) didn't want the Government benches. They were content to hold the Gov. accountable, and offer “support in return for concessions”.
Anyone who believes a majority such as Newman now enjoys is a good thing is naive at best. One party systems are never good, regardless of ideology.
Without an effective opposition, Newman is almost certain to self destruct.
The only questions are, how long, and how badly?

Dear Grim

Look to an historical clue, probably about the same time as the recently routed NSW Labor and probably not as far into debt as they left us.

How bad? Apparently not bad enough to make them change their spots. One week back in government and Bob Carr is showing the same old mind set that NSW voters tried to get rid of.