Runner, I agree with you. Tony Abbott has had an exemplary private life, and Julia Gillard is living in sin. However,what is at issue is their performance in office and not their private life. Their private life is neither your business nor my business. Since Tony Abbott does so well in his private life I recommend that he be returned there.

Of course some think that Tony Abbott would make a better prime minister. If they are right that's where he should be. However, his exemplary private life is not a qualification for the job.

& David the corollary then would be that a very tainted business political, & private life is a qualification for becoming prime minister, in your eyes.

Well you lot should know. A couple of leaders or deputies in jail for pedophilia, & more than a few who reckoned union members should be paying their wages, & a hell of a lot more to boot. Present leadership included.

davidf

you cheat on your wife or husband you are far more likely to cheat on the public. You use hard earned union money for personal profit you far more likely to treat tax payer money with abandonment. The current crop in power have demonstrated this to anyone with eyes to see. Private philosophy usually works out in public policy. Why to you think the Labour party is so desperate to smear Abbott. They ignore their own leaders atrocious past and then try deperately to find something from Abbott's uni days ignoring Emily's list and descriptions of all wives being prostitutes. I take it from your comments that you dissaproved greatly of Peter Hollingsworth being hounded from office by the god haters on the basis of his personal philosophy and smear.

Dear Hasbeen,

Being a crook is not a qualification for office. Gillard has not been shown to have done anything crooked. What marital or sexual connections she has is her own business.

There is simply too much nosiness about what goes on in other people's bedrooms.

Pedophilia is a crime. Living with somebody without being married is not a crime.

Geoffrey Fisher, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, stated:

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Bringing in pedophilia shows you are not aware of the difference between a sin and a crime.

Runner and hasbeen as you appear to be taking the high moral ground, in respect of the Australian Prime Minister private life.
Do you support a Royal Commission on sexual and physical abuse, that children suffered when in the so called care of all religous orders
(including Pentacostal).

A royal commission it is.....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-12/abbott-backs-call-for-child-abuse-royal-commission/4367364