Total agreeance with Poirot.
Abbott and his clan can not come to terms that we were fed an enormous amount of lies before the election, after the election and everyday sinse.

If that was recognised and not pushed around trying to explain or make excuses for Abbott's behaviour and recognise we have an imposter for a PM. If that happened there would be lot different type of conservation going on here.

The man told deliberate lies and went to the election on a fraud. Correct.

GrahamY, every non communist hears where you are coming from, but left wing theology is not now & never has been politics or ideology. it is a radical, extreme religious cult.

put on your criminal profilers hat & have another long hard look, in the cold grey light of dawn, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight at their criminal minds. the way they deify their leaders, revere their holy scriptures. demonize all opposition.

they will never, ever give up on Critical Theory or relentless, destructive criticism of conservatives.

You are not a centrist moderate, you are hard right.
You talk of conservative as a collective; We are talking about the Abbott govt; and why they can not see that they have misled the voters of AU

All they do is make excuses and some are just stupid, and make the political atmosphere worse.

While there is no recognition of improper process, there is no way forward.

they have misled the voters of AU
579,
You are misleading yourselves with your intense vidictiveness due to your fear of the bandwagon slowing down.
As any decent Australian voter & they will tell you they do not feel misled by the Abbott Government. You hangers-on are simply getting dirty because the gravy is getting sour.

imacentristmoderate,

"GrahamY, every non communist hears where you are coming from, but left wing theology is not now & never has been politics or ideology. it is a radical, extreme religious cult."

Now I wonder why, judging from the comment above, that lefties might choose to talk to each other on twitter?

I rarely come upon such rhetoric on twitter because it's easy to avoid. If I want a bit of biff, I could go to the hashtag #auspol. Often on that tag there are "right-wing" bots which just roll out anti-left-wing material ad nauseam. There are also some disgusting right-wing tweeters who I avoid like the plague. There are also lefties who are over the top - and I avoid them as well.I usually avoid #auspol for those reasons.

So my timeline on twitter is fairly courteous, usually sharing links and sometimes having a joke...also an opportunity to have a brief opinion or to retweet something I like.

Reality is that I go to twitter for a totally different experience than I find here. Here, I'm far more likely to get into a nasty argument with posters who hold a contrary view to my own. I rarely argue on twitter, which I find is an antidote to the bad energy involved in snarking in places like OLO.

JKJ,

Love the way you roll out Gillard's carbon tax/price as your sole defence. Did she deceive the electorate wholesale? Did she produce an agenda the polar opposite of the platform she was elected on?

In just about every area that the Abbott govt assured us "there would be no changes"...we are presented with an agenda that turns our social fabric inside out. All these "surprises" added to all the lies are what lefties are complaining about. We don't expect pollies to stand strictly by every word they utter pre-election...what we do expect, however, is they don't dupe us wholesale and then continue to spit lies in our face by saying they're keeping the commitments they made to the Australian people - when they're clearly "not".

SR,

Nothing in what Abbott said that day was incorrect. Juliar had been behaving disgracefully, so desperate to cling on to power that there were no levels of indecency to which she was not prepared to stoop. After the shameful shielding of Thomson who was so obviously crooked, she tried the same pathetic game again for Slipper.

As Juliar had no rational defence against Abbott's criticism, Juliar herself made the tenuous link between what Abbott said and Alan Jones's comment in order to deflect the criticism.

As predicted by Abbott, she lost her speaker, and her caucus and was tossed out of parliament in disgrace.