It is obvious whom we should vote for now.

Pauline

Vote for anyone but the Greens, Labor or the Liberal Party. Barnaby Joyce is the only one in the Nationals worth his salt.

Hi Jo,
No more lies and wishful thinking !

It only takes 10-15 minutes every 3 years ,to use the preferential system and number on the Senate ballot paper the 110 candidates below the line .
Not a big ask compared to having half one's face or testicles blown-off in Afghanistan.

By doing this , you can send the only message to the major parties, that they respect .

Every major problem we face from housing, university funding, child neglect, jails, environment, manufacturing collapse, casualization of the workforce, selling public assets, massive public/private borrowings, traffic chaos, growing poverty, social security blow-outs.....(.very happy to dialogue the back stories on all this)...is made catastrophically worse by one design blunder..................POPULATION GROWTH .

By preferencing the STABLE POPULATION PARTY first, then your major party second ( after that, just do the numbering because it won't matter ), we have a chance to turn the place around.

The positive message is that we have designed the mess in, so we can design it out .

Very best Jo ,

Ralph

Rudd and Labor have sunk into a mire of lies and deceipt. They have utterly destroyed thenselves. We are watching the death throes of labor. It is all so terribky sad.

Jo if you value your future you woukd abandon labor and their cohorts and vote Liberal.

Abbott a "decent member" of parliament?

Abbott's a morally & intellectually bankrupt throwback - a desperate, hysteria-mongering, habitually dishonest, arrogant megalomaniac.

Charging the taxpayer for all his "charity" stunts and posing for firefighter photo-ops during a bushfire and then going home as soon as the cameras leave doesn't sound very decent to me.

Neither does conspiring with media representatives and others to manufacture false allegations against others for a quick political gain.

Rudd's not much better but to claim that Abbott is somehow different is totally without foundation and as soon as he slips away from his media minders' tight leash, more will become apparent.

I'm with Wobbles and Jo
runner, and other Abbott fans, forget that Abbott would have done anything during the negotiating period in 2010 to form a governing coalition. Abbott's irresponsible attitude turned Oakeshott and Windsor toward Julia Gillard.

Abbott in government will show his true colours which are not attractive.

The measures Gillard put in place will (in history) show that she was one of the most competent people to have ever filled the PM position (provided Abbott and the extreme right don't get a chance to undo the measures before they become effective).

Anyone who has studied the efforts of Howard and Costello know that that pair made a mess of things. They made home owners feel wealthy at the expense of the homeowners children and grandchildren.

An understanding of the situation of a currency issuing government shows that such a government is nothing like a state government or a small business, or even an individual. Hockey and Robb either don't understand and are incompetent in economic matters or they know and are duplicitous.

While there is 13% underemployment the Federal Government should be creating work to built needed, beneficial, assets.