Abbott's idea was to have a modern day dictatorship. He was judged far to radical for the public. Besides the mountain of lies he based his election on. How many votes did the UPF get. They are a mob of far right radicals just like Abbott.

I do not believe the only way to cut spending is by slash and burn.

A Senate elected and voting along party lines is not what our founding fathers had in mind. So, the idea that Tasmania should have the same number of senators as NSW is antiquated.

A house of review. fine, but none of this equal representation swill.

Alan,

Forget Bernadi. He doesn't have the personality nor the interest in people to get anywhere. He is a cold fish and a zealot; a thoroughly unlikeable person. You might be justified in calling him 'far right'. I just regard him as a freak and a religious fundamentalist. He is not your average Catholic.

The type of conservatism that worked for Australia is the Howard type. We were all better off than we had ever been, and there was no extremism. You probably don't remember the Menzies days, but the real Australia existed then, too, even though the world was a much simpler place, where there were clear distinctions between right an wrong, and we knew who our friends and enemies were. Now, we sit back and let our enemies kill us and our friends because some idiots came up with the idea of cultural relativity and sensitivity to a culture wanting to wipe us out. We are too weak to successfully prosecute a war to protect ourselves. And, we kowtow to an evil, Communist dicatorship as though it were just another benign, allied country.

As for your homosexual 'marriage' hobby horse, you have Labor and the Greens to give that one a go if enough people agree to it. It is not a platform of conservatism, and you have to accept that, just as I would have to accept it if Labor had won the election. That's democracy, something I'm not convinced you believe in.