Thanks Pistol Pete,

Its a shame you have to pull out of the fire old comments from years ago and use them as your argument and combine them with some new angles.

What you guys dont realise is the first party to stop knocking others and focus wholey and solely on what YOU can do for us, not what they can/cant, you will be much more respected and we could focus politics rather than the pathetic attempts to continually discredit eachother.

As you know most people are fairly one eyed and i would say most people have made up their minds by now, so your article wont make an ounce of difference to peoples votes.

Your budget was ok except for the cop out handouts to buy a few votes, but i am sure you will recieve some support from those who benefit from them. One off payments are a waste of taxpayers money completely, how can you call this responsible government?

Have a real crack hey. The reason you guys have a real battle on your hands is this bloke is motivated and extremely clever, and guess what things change so you cannot blame him for changing stance or his position at times. It reflects a more dynamic leadership that the current and a willingness to adapt in order to do have the best approach.

Pete, i want to vote for you guys, i always have, but your making it hard for us.

Mr Rudd is Mr wanna be elected no matter what policies he needs to change. In 6 months of campaigning we have seen more back flips than Mr Howard has had in 10 long years. Just goes to show how much Mr Rudd wants the job. At least Ms Gillard is trying to stick by her misplaced belief in unionism.

As long as Rudd is not Howard, or one of his psychopathic mates, I don't care who he is.

Rudd's problem of course is that Julia keeps shooting him in the foot! Well done, Jools! Perhaps you could aim a little higher.

Ah, Dollar Sweetie knows all about industrial relations as he fought the evil confectioners union so hard that the company went into receivership and has reemerged as The Natural Confectionery Company.

On the other hand Mr Rudd's wife has found wealth through finding employment for disabled people. Has any one ever claimed her firm is one of the Job Service providers that make clients wait for 12 months before placing them in a short term job?

If Dollar Sweetie had listened in his Economics lectures he would know that GST is a regressive tax because it places a higher tax burden on low income workers who spend more than their income on living whereas rich people spend aportion of their income.

Well Dollar Sweetie must have been the only person in Australia who didn't see Bastard Boys which is a dramatisation of the waterfront strike. I was amazed at the power of the water front workers but I never have been covered by a strong union. I was shocked at the Federal governments absolute determination to crush the unions - the good, the bad and the ugly.

We watch in horror when our student children have to provide an ABN to get part time work and provide public liability insurance. Or student/inexperienced teachers who are foolish enough to stand in front of a class of children without union protection. If a child refuses to follow instructions, and harms another pupil the education department and school leave the teacher on their own.

What further Industrial Relations changes are in store for 2008?

Dollar Sweetie you are lucky that your plans to sell off Medibank Private, gut Pharmaceutical Benefits and destroy Medicare are still off the public radar.

Dollar Sweetie what have you done about global warming and Australia's water and ultimately our food supply in your 11 years in power.

Rudd, at least, has vision.

Can we please make this forum a no-smirking area?

I'm all for political debate, but plain and simple point-scoring is really, really boring.