Well, they haven't been elected! And because as in the very surprising Trump election the pollsters were so wrong as to be off the chart and the coalition was assisted by an aggressive getup and an extremely autocratic anti coal caravan led by God's gift to Australia democracy, Bob Brown.

And by a smart-ass pom/ex-union leader who lacked both authenticity and charisma. And just wouldn't listen to the concerns of both his Victorian and Queensland blue-collar base. Both Queensland and Australia are absolutely dependant on coal and coal mining for export dollars and jobs.

Tony Abbott lost his seat because he had tin ears on many critical to the moderate middle! Labor lost in a veritable landslide and now is almost confined to the political wilderness. As the world shudders from one man-made crisis and economic contraction to another.

Labor and Australia need coal! Why? because of an ill-informed and moronic resistance to CLEAN, SAFE, CHEAP carbon-free nuclear energy. More on the question of coal and jobs.
TBC Alan B.

Labor lost Queensland because they wanted to jettison/keep coal and coal mining!

And an absurd reliance on more expensive than nuclear energy, renewables.

Back to coal/jobs in the mining industry. We must have baseload power, even if we get to 50% renewables! NO QUESTION!

And how we do it in a carbon-constrained future, without tanking the economy.

First, we need a national gas grid, whether we do or don't mine coal or extract coal seam gas. A huge shot in the arm for the national steel industry and construction jobs and in the bush by and large!

The second is changing the way we convert coal-fired power to electrical energy. It has to change because the current model is unfundable! Current clean coal concepts are horrendously expensive. That said there's another way that lowers emissions by 75% immediately it's implemented!

Removes huge current maintenance cost into the bargain. Coal is cooked with flameless heat. My preference? MSR thorium because it's vastly cheaper than the only other option, solar thermal.

Once all gas is cooked out of the coal, it's scrubbed and piped to the electrical consumer then transformed into electricity via Australian invented fuel cells. The exhaust product is mostly pristine water vapour!

As a gas, it can be produced during daylight then stored for later use. Both at the production facility and at the recipient's address. Where one of the by-products would be endless free hot water/no blackouts!

PROVING THIS SMOG FREE CONCEPT, IN ACTION, WOULD MASSIVELY BOOST EXPORTS AND LOCAL CONSTRUCTION/MINING BASED EMPLOYMENT!

A pipeline can be buried or used to transport this gas to any large market in our region or interstate! Even via Bass Straight!

This coal-based gas would be cheap and last for 4 times longer if used as proposed. Some of which needs to be quarantined exclusively for use in our own economy.

Which would be massively boosted by this and the medical tourism that would follow MSR thorium and the consequent comparative, large scale production of miracle cancer cure bismuth 213!
Alan B.

Yuyustu. Example? Your last contribution and verbal will do just fine And fairly typical of your debating style. Where one presumes you invariably judge others on your own flawed standards. Moreover, I do not suffer fools gladly.

If we were to say, follow your's and other's prescription of God we would be passing ourselves coming back given the directions all you believers want to take the world? And you seem to want to refute the unrefutable truth?

I mean at least some of you have to be wrong!

Believing in a flat 6,000 world at the centre of the universe never made it so! nor any other unproven belief based philosophy! AND, I AM NOT QUOTING YOU!

Following as I see it, is replicating (walking in your Master's shoes and naught else) the evocations/examples of the various religious leaders who have as always been men and women who preached peace and peaceful cohabitation as law-abiding neighbours.

And doesn't ever mean we must believe as they do or indeed any other comparative philosophy, let alone fight wars and kill one another over any of this or that completely unproven he said she said belief system!

If you want to quote me?

By all means. but never ever again misrepresent my words or cast a different meaning on them nor attempt to infer that I've said something in so many words which I've never actually uttered or inferred!

If you don't understand what I've said ask for clarification before (repeatedly) conferring new meanings on what I've actually or have not actually said!
Alan B.

As the virtue signalling labor is now to remain on the opposition benches for another 3 years, this entire thread is redundant

Shadow Minister,

<<As the virtue signalling labor is now to remain on the opposition benches for another 3 years, this entire thread is redundant.>>

To the contrary, it not only is relevant, but also was prophetic.

The Prime Minister gave credit to ‘quiet Australians’ for his shock election victory on 18 May 2019. Pollsters predicted a Labor win. They got it wrong – very wrong, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/19/scott-morrison-credits-the-quiet-australians-for-miracle-election-victory.

Many of these 'quiet Australians' were so concerned about Labor's agenda against freedom of religion that they did what Pat Byrne recommended: Don't vote Labor. Pat hit the mark when he stated:

"Key exemptions in the federal Sex Discrimination Act (SDA), that allowed faith-based schools to enrol and employ people according to their religious beliefs, are under serious threat. The Labor Party and the Greens are committed to removing these exemptions in the next Parliament....

"There has been little public debate over the wide-ranging consequences of removing exemptions for faith based schools in the Sex Discrimination Act, yet those changes are undermining Australia's tolerant democracy and pose a serious threat to freedom of religion, belief and speech".

That's just one reason why the Pat Byrne article points to action this new government must implement.

Fairfax news reported the importance of the content of Pat's article AFTER the election:

"Christian leaders believe religious freedom was among "sleeper" issues that influenced votes for the Coalition in marginal seats across the country.

"Mark Spencer, national executive officer of Christian Schools Australia, said parents in marginal seats had expressed their concerns to his organisation over the protection of religious freedom.

"There are mums and dads across Australia who want to choose a school that reflects their values,” he said.

“We know that parents in key marginal seats across Australia were saying to us how important the protection of values, beliefs, and freedom of religion are to them.

“With religious freedom featuring in the campaign like never before, it is impossible to imagine that values were not front of mind for voters", http://theworldnews.net/au-news/christian-leaders-say-religious-freedom-was-among-factors-that-influenced-voters

Oz,

If Labor doesn't change they will forever be in opposition. I don't think even they are that stupid.