Jo Couglan is right, Labor could win this election.

What nobody is thinking about, is how voting demographics have changed. Labor used to be the party of the working and disadvantaged demographic, but not anymore.

Labor has become the "Immigrants and Refugees Party", as evidenced by the fact that the Labor Party's new heartlands are in the Muslim and Asian electorates. Rudd is openly courting the Chinese vote, and every time you see him he is surrounded by Chinese. Perhaps he could run for mayor of Peking if he bombs out in the next election?

John Howard lost his seat in the blue ribbon liberal seat of Bennelong because the demographics had changed. High numbers of Asians, who want to bring the entire population of China into Australia, voted out Howard in favour of a mandarin speaker like Rudd who was obviously acceptable to China and it's people.

Labor leaders like Carr are making the right noises about perfidious Israel in the Bankstown and Auburn mosques to get the Muslim vote, and Labor probably gives 'How to vote Labor" pamphlets out at every citizenship ceremony.

The election now seems to be between the shrinking number of Australians who vote Liberal and the increasing number of foreigners who now live in Australia who vote in our elections, and vote Labor. Labor has done the maths and knows that it can breed out the Liberal Australian voters through immigration and birth rate differentials, and it knows that it will win in the end.

poirot,
That link is nothing short of what is expected of you. You're now reduced to childish spite.
How old are you . 14?

Gosh individual - linking to a newspaper item is childish and spiteful? What is wrong with pointing out that Tony Abbott drapes himself with his daughters like Hugh Heffner with a pair of Playboy bunnies? Its downright weird.

The reason that Poirot and Candida are having a hissy fit is that Abbott has raised 3 well balanced successful daughters who obviously adore him which punctures the propaganda put out by spin machines such as Getup. Abbott couldn't possible love his daughters and thus must be a Hefneresque pervert. Perhaps he should appear in Woman's weekly knitting with a Spoodle and lapdog Tim?

I saw KRudd kissing his grand daughter, using the same logic, he must therefore be a pedophile.

Dudd has ballsed up this campaign, and is now looking at faring worst than Juliar would. I am looking forward to the night of the long knives when Labor finally takes out the Ruddish and his supporters.

SM,

No hissy fit.

"...... Abbott has raised 3 well balanced successful daughters who obviously adore him...."

That's all very nice....however, are you telling me that his deciding to dumb down his rhetoric for the Big Brother audience does him credit? Not only does he dumb it down, he has the temerity to use his attractive daughters as props - and sums up his brief election spiel with a plea to vote for him because he has two good looking birds hanging off his shoulder.

That they happen to be his daughters, makes it even more cringe-worthy.

You might think that is good form, but I think it's crap.

On the costings, it seems that the release of costings is not set to incude key poicies.

(So much for releasing policy costings well in advance - more BS)

"But missing from the independent costings will be the analysis on three of the Coalition's key policies: broadband, Direct Action and the plan to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat.

The reason that the Coalition has not sent these policies to the independent Parliamentary Budget Office was because the PBO will not have access to the information outside of government and because the policies have "input from a range of external sources", a spokesman for Mr Hockey confirmed."

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/key-coalition-policies-not-submitted-for-independent-costings-20130905-2t6dm.html#ixzz2dyLWnHbD

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individual,

"How old are you . 14?"

Had to laugh at that, considering it's emanating from an intellectual giant such as yourself.

: )

Shadowmonster and PullYerLego, as you gloat over the possible coming victory of the rightist 'enrich the wealthy and bleed the poor' party led by Phoney Abbott, keep in mind that you too may be caught in Tony's net when the audit is carried out.

Of course, both of you could well be supremos of capitalism and have oodles of investment properties and bulging share portfolios. Perhaps you have spent your whole lives money-grubbing said to be a worthy achievement by some. But not by me.

No, I think there are other more noble causes than money-grubbing. Murdoch and other billionaires to me is symbolic of a sick, 'law of the jungle' society. The fact that so few people share in a nation's wealth is an indictment of the whole society. Clive Palmer is grotesque and illustrates clearly why greed despoils the greedy.

On Saturday, the Forces of Evil will take over Australia and we will move closer to the Satanic Empire of the U.S.

What a hideous prospect!