Agronomist I did ask the voters. Unlike the majority of commenters that I see in social media I actually poll voters and ask them what they are doing. And they tell me. I am very careful of facts.

The only group that thinks it is born to rule in this country is the ALP. May have been otherwise once, but somewhere around the Hawke/Keating period they achieved their aim of becoming the "natural party of government".

This is mainly achieved by dominance of the media, who come out of universities well-schooled in ideology, but not in facts. That's why so few left-wing fantasies, such as catastrophic climate warming, are questioned, and why a minor conservative hiccup becomes a major cause celebre.

Where was the love media when Crikey was calling Julie Bishop the "mattress for Nattrass" when her partner was Peter Nattrass? They came out in force for Julia when the grandmother of second wave feminism Germaine Greer dared to point out the obvious - she had a large backside. But they wouldn't even lift a finger nail to help a sister on the other side of the ideological street.

Having seen this hypocrisy in a number of areas, including civil liberties I've come to despise the left. So we have Tony Fitzgerald worrying away because someone touched the CJC, and completely ignoring a Labor campaign based on repeated lies, like that Newman had cut frontline services.

I still have some friends on the left, but they are not typical of the narcissistic postmodern fantasism that characterises the modern left.

Yes Graham, there is an old saying in buiness that goes Position, Position, Position, and the saying for big business, the main driver of our economy is Confidence, Confidence, Confidence. I fear thus has just been struck a blow.

We have the likes of Clive Palmer and even Allan Jones dancing in the streets, but their issues were personal and with what labor took to the campaign, if I were reliant on holding my job to service my mortage and educate my kids, I would be very worried at present because labor has no money and with our credit rating being so low, thanks again to previous labor, I doubt we will see out of control borrowings.

The first thing they will want to do no doubt is to reinstate many if the public servants let go by Newman.

Major infrastructure projects like the much needed Toowoomba Bipass are no doubt in the firing line.

Never before have I seen so much gained for such little effort as was displayed by labor during their campaign. They offered literally nothing.

While few elections are actually won, this one was lost in a huge way.

We can only hope their leader has done her homework because anyone who doesn't even know the GST amount is not representative of a person in touch with reality.

GrahamY,

it's comments like that which rob you of kudos and credibility, an idiotic denunciation of 'the left' (including the scientific community presiding over climate change--all left-wing fanatics presumably), as if there was no nuance in there or anything worth a moment's thought. You should head for Canberra!

It just occurred to me that I don't recall any mention of the Carmody appointment during the election campaign--another blatant example of the LNP's contempt for consensus, propriety or protocol, unless it's handing out a crony gong.

Graham,

".... But they wouldn't even lift a finger nail to help a sister on the other side of the ideological street."

Beside the main point really, but I'd just like to point out that in the wake of Murdoch calling for Abbott to boot Credlin - delivered via "electronic graffiti" on twitter - I noted many "lefties" immediately ditch any political bias and jump straight in to defend Credlin on a gender basis.

There were far more lefties defending her than would ordinarily be the case along purely political lines. Probably because it was seen as beyond the pale for Murdoch to call for the female to be ditched, while her male counterpart in the leadership duo is preserved.

be fascinating if the emily's listers would support Bishop. Its always a degree of hate when it comes to emily's listers not of rationale. That's why the majority of the media are so obessed with abbott (phobia). Unlike our resident feminist a lot of the media don't even try and hide it especially those sucking so hard on the public purse. Always about self interest and never about the good of society or the country.

A very good article from the author followed by a very stupid comment from the author:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=17060#301059

Rusted on, you betcha.