Hay Duck, do you have any thoughts of your own, or are you only able to regurgitate what has been written by someone else.

Yes this is something to do when still a student, as it is hard for you to be marked down. However when we leave education we are supposed to start to think for ourselves.

Just keep dropping names all over the place, if you want to be judged as a student. Start producing your own thoughts if you want to be considered an adult.

People who give too much credence to the printed word are inclined to produce rubbish like this article.

"People who give too much credence to the printed word are inclined to produce rubbish like this article."

Or indeed, something along the lines of babble contained in the post before this.....

The "Troggs" (Troglodytes) of the left are metastasizing and accusing real workers of their own failures. Others are Racist but they happily drown brown people for the benefit of their vanity. Others are mean whilst they destroy value with NBN (FTTH), School tin shed debacle ..... (too much to detail). Others aren't caring whilst children are not washed for fear of the power bill. Others brutalise the environment whilst they erect huge bird mincers and sicken communities with infra-sound.

"Progressives" are acolytes of a vain, regressive urge to power invented by a mumbling madman in the British Museum reading room centuries ago. Time for them to modernise, a reformation of the Left is much needed.

dkit,

Over 50% of electors did NOT vote for Abbott in their electorates.

In fact only about 38% of the entire population voted for the Liberal Party.
It's their coalition votes that got them over the line - like the Oakshotte / Windsor alliance. (Despite Abbott claiming that he would never do deals with minority parties).

More people voted for the ALP than for the Liberal Party and more people voted against Abbott's party than for it.

It's like the Queensland LNP getting just under 50% of the votes but picking up 80% of the seats in 2012.

Rache,

What utter BS,

Look at http://vtr.aec.gov.au/ before spouting rubbish.

The coalition is made up of Libs, LNP, Nats, Country liberals, with nearly 46% of the primary vote and 53.4% of the 2pp.

So suck it up.

Australia is the lucky country. We survived the GFC, a catastrophe that has been seen whole nations become financial basket cases. How then was the tsunami of propaganda regarding Australia’s apparent free fall to economic oblivion given substance? It wasn’t. It was just said over and over.

And while even the most welded on LNP supporter senses it too, there remains a psychosis of voluntary naivety among voters.
Tony didn’t win the election, Kevin just lost it. The Labor party destroyed itself from the inside. Craig Emerson dancing like a fool to Horror Movie, could have been singing about Labor at that time.

We saw then Prime Minister Rudd portrayed in the press as Col Clink, the comedic characterization of a Nazi, being justified by the vested beneficiaries of this war time like propaganda, as fair and equal representation. Had the Murdock rags followed with a cartoon of Abbott, Hockey and Pyne as the three stooges, I think many others would have seen this wholly stupid and dangerous use of a monopoly media this was.

And we had Roger Corbett, who didn’t tell us he is a Liberal member when he advised us that Tony is a great human being and Rudd isn’t. It was appalling.

Abbott’s slogans contain literally no vision of the future, just a winding back to the past. It tells us we should be slow, methodical, cautious and scared. There is no courage or humanity in the simplistic slogans of the wooden Tony. The anti-policy and hidden agendas of the LNP is a platform of inertia.

Tony will now slowly and methodically and carefully put Australia in reverse. He will Howardly wind it all back. Abbott’s simplistic slogans of one dimensional change are to be consequentially tested now and the gamble is our democratic right.

“Stop the boats” is not a value or a basis for our identity as a nation. Tony’s “Im fairdinkum” isn't either. We need new leaders with courage and ambition, with respect and integrity, with imagination and an intrinsic sense of fairness. Who do i trust Tony? Not you mate.