And happy Christmas to everyone also! :-)

Excellent article. Intriguing discussion.

A surprising level of irrationality, hate and anger, however, for an analysis which is really quite mild in comparison with the vicious unwarranted attacks mounted routinely against the preceding government.

I wonder why? Guilt? Embarrasssment? Shame?

On the merits of the arguments here, however, the author has the data on his side.

It has been shown here at OLO and elsewhere that during the period 2010 to 2013 Australia had not only the best economy Australia has ever had and the best economy in the world during that four year period - but the best economy the world has ever seen.

And that was achieved during the worst downturn globally since the Great Depression of the 1930s!

That's on the 20 variables discussed here:
http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=15755&page=0

So those who appear so upset with Tristan can cheer up.

Especially at this time of year.

Merry Christmas!

It must be nice ALAN AUSTIN to possess such a superior intellect as to so dispassionately observes us mindless and vacuous masses, who you believe, allegedly generate all this hate, shame, guilt, embarrassment and anger ?

We, of the banal brigade, us robotic taxpayers who go to work, week in and week out, in order to partly fund individuals like TRISTAN EWINS in spreading his far left socialist detritus to our innocent children ? It is for this and this alone, for which I complain with such verve and vivacity.

And not for the customary political implications of the usual, Labour v Conservatives argument ? Of that nauseating issue, I couldn't care less ! Both parties are (totally) morally corrupt.

Warmest greetings to you also, O Sung Wu, for this season of peace and goodwill.

TRISTAN EWINS and ALAN AUSTIN...Thank you both for your kind seasonal greetings and good wishes, and I of course extend the same to you and yours. Despite our dispirited ideological differences and our broad political dissimilarity ! Still, it's our differences that augment our respective lives and make them so jolly interesting, don't you think ?

O wong
Wrong the liberals are not corrupt.
It is the left wing lying line to hold that all politicians are the same. That then excuses their favoured imoral rabble and slanders those politicians who hold dear and practise the 4 prime virtues of western civilisation.
Fortitude, justice, prudence and tolerance. Some inculde temperance as well.