Gym-Fish, no one knows just how good a PM Abbott would turn out to be.
Likewise, no one knows how good a treasurer Hockey would be.

I think they are likely to be quite reasonable ones, and perhaps even
good ones.
The one thing we do know is our current crop are an unmitigated disaster.
Even the labour party itself mumbles that under their breadth.
If labour gets back in I may go to New Zealand for a few years.

Ha Belly, how about a couple of years in YJ8 or ZL5 ? Join me ?

After all, it is the economy stupid, Quote, unquote.
Rhrosty.

No it isn't !
It is energy stupid !

Peter Lang if I said all right wing voter beat their wives, it would be as accurate as you're assertions.

Abbott does not have statesman quality. His only skills so far shown are no, crap, pledges in blood.
How can anyone say he may be a good leader.
With out knowing anything about his economic skills.
They do not talk economics, in fact they do not talk anything that has to do with the welfare of AU.
Foot in mouth disorder, is dangerous.
You can not vote for a blind and mute person.
No matter what you think of the incumbent, the alternative may be dangerous.
No doubt Abbott,s plan is to sack hoards of people, as they do to create an unemployment pool
Labors way is to have people employed, and still aim for a surplus.

Abbott's three core ideas as revealed to Paul Kelly are good enough for me. The MSM would continue the baseless smears on any new Liberal leader anyway.

The first is a deep commitment to the prudent state typified by surplus budgets, debt reductions, dismantling “Labor values” spending and an attack of sorts on the entitlement culture, an idea pushed by economic spokesman Joe Hockey, long seized by the fiscal task he faces.

Second, the Coalition seeks a rebalancing between enterprise and the environment with a sweeping agenda to dismantle Labor “green and red tape”, purge regulatory complexity, facilitate development, promote northern Australia as an export food bowl and run environmental policies that are more direct and practical. In this sense, carbon tax repudiation, important in its own right, symbolises a decisive switch in values, policy and political culture.

Third, as a social fabric conservative Abbott wants to curb the idea that “government knows best”, limit interference in people’s lives, cut social engineering and, as a perpetual volunteer in his personal life, promote Edmund Burke’s concept of “little platoons"-Abbott’s notion of social communities based on individual initiative and much greater personal responsibility.

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Of course Abbott is a liability to the Conservative Party.
But a bigger liability is the complete absence of Coalition policies coupled with an incredibly mediocre front bench.
Hockey? Pyne? Bishop? I know - it sounds like the punchline to a bad joke.
Fortunately, the latest polls show Labor almost even with the Coalition, so it's clear that the electorate is wising up.
Hopefully, Labor will be re-elected, as their excellent policy record indicates.
Especially when one considers the following facts:
* Australia has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world;
* Australia's national debt is around one tenth of the average of developed nations;
* Australia's unemployment is enviably low, one of the lowest among developed nations;
* Australia has come through the GFC without even going into recession.
So, there's a good chance that Labor will be re-elected, hopefully with a majority in both houses, so that it can continue its excellent work without the hindrance of the current whining opposition.
What a first class PM Julia Gillard is becoming.
What a joke Abbott is becoming.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.au