Dear runner,

I'm glad that you agree in that case - that
Mr Abbott should get his advice from somewhere
else because it certainly isn't currently working.
A change of direction needs to take place.
Perhaps he also needs to look at some of the talent
on his back-bench as well. Keeping party hacks on
the front-bench out of loyalty is not longer good
enough in this day and age.

Foxy,
Yeah some fresh blood is what the LNP needs. The front bench are hasbeens from the Howard era.
Times have changed, as they do, and these people are not what we need. Australia has many challenges in front of it and back to the future thinking as displayed by the present front bench is just not up to it.
There has got to be some talent and ability a bench or two back from the front. Let them through, we need them.
SD

"Yeah some fresh blood is what the LNP needs," says Shaggy Dog.

Shaggy, all members of the current Parliament should be replaced. There are too many hasbeens hanging around waiting to retire so they can work for Big Corporations.

We also need to dismiss all people associated with the two main parties, all the union hacks, all lawyers, all ACTU minions, etc. Then we need to fumigate the Parliament from top to bottom, leave the place clean and ready to make a new start.

A new start means no ex-politicians, Rhodes Scholars, band promoters, rich country gentlemen, union thugs, managing directors, garbage collectors, American Barbies, lawyers of any kind, media hacks, seven day a week bikeriders, marathon runners, religious fanatics, Yank-apologists, millionaire miners, etc.

What we need are down-to-earth Australians who want to serve their country rather than themselves and who will not engage in criminal activity over expenses or frequent houses of ill-repute or sniff chairs used by women.

Shaggy, this is the way to clean up the show before we end up like America, a political garbage dump!

David,
You have no argument from me, could not agree more.
I was only referring to the situation we are in right now.
Voting these days does not consist of voting in the best people, it is more about the least bad of a very bad lot.
Dreadful state of affairs.
SD

What a laugh. All the old Howard haters are back out in force.
Keep it up you blinkered lot.
It only took you 10 years to replace John. With the current lot of union/labor dummies it will take a far bigger effort than that to replace Tony.
Lol keep it up. Like the ABC/Fairfax nexus, who few now listen to, you are becoming a hackneyed sneering irrelevance who cannot enter a rational debate without resorting to abuse.
Keep it up you are alienating more and more voters with that dumbed down approach.

Dear Julia,
I am an LNP voter but that said the days of John Howard are past, we need some people with vision these days not flogged out party hacks and that applies to both sides.
To bang on about the good old days is a waste of time, the world has changed and will keep changing, we need leaders who can handle change. People who understand what is in front of us not dreaming of past glory.
SD