PLEASE BRING THIS TO PETER'S ATTENTION.

It is not prudent to have such large deficits when infrastructure is so run down and it not sound politics to remind the electorate of this by spending the surplus on trying to get re elected.
Does Peter really want us to believe that all those vessels standing unproductively off our harbours will go away if Labor is elected?
Are we to forget the fact that Peter claims to have known nothing about the AWB doing the governments bidding in Iraq and that he knew nothing about the Qantas Board taking the airline offshore?
Remind Peter that whilst he might forget what his government did 12 months ago many other Australians do not.
For as long as Peter and John attack Kevin they will keep his profile before the public in a positive light because Peter and John are now percieved as dishonest bullies and that impression is reinforced every time they sneer and snarl.
In the time that remains try and get Peter to use his ofice for the good of the greatest number of people.
Just remind him that money can't buy you love.
Bruce Haigh

For deficit read surplus.
BH

Too many soft years and the lack of mental rigour are the price we will pay for a government who has been too successful.
For people who have had it good but are thankless towards those who gave us the good times, you may be on the road to discovery.
Your friends, the ALP, are like a mob of headless chooks running around squawking, they all squawk and squawk but they are never productive.
They are never ever going to produce anything but jobs 'for the boys' and you will pay, this you deserve.
Enjoy!

Bruce,
At last someone agrees with me. Peter Costello was part of a team who could not sell Telstra fast enough. Now we have Telstra crying foul because of the ACCC. If Peter, Johnny and Helen give into Telstra than we will end up with an American Telecommunication System. Have some doubts. Wait until Optus tells their customers who are not on their network, please find another provider and that applies to both telephone and internet services. This will occur within the next couple of months. My advice if you have cable, try an internet phone service and soon you will take your landline and place it in the bin.

Peter: All Kevin Rudd and his team have to do is look better than John Howard and you. They do.

If they lose, it will be because John and you frightened the electorate into voting for you, instead of appealing to our reason.

I realise this is a promising campaigning strategy: the Australian electorate is easily frightened. This is what I dislike about you the most: you press our shabbiest buttons.

To the contrary Workchoices is very much in the interest of workers - although it may not appear to be at first glance. In the end though it is what will keep jobs in Australia. Our standard of living may need to go down...we are almost certainly living beyond our means. Too many people believe that the luxuries of life are actually the necessities and that the government should pay for essentials. (I was always of the opinion that the taxpayers were the ones who eventually paid but it seems that I am wrong and that, somewhere out there, there is something called a "government" that has endless amounts of cash to spend which is in no way related to people called taxpayers so of course now we can all have whatever we want without working or paying for it....life according to the ALP anyway.)
Unless an economy is in decent shape it is not possible to direct additional funds to areas of national importance. Oh but I forgot if the ALP States don't want it to happen it ain't gonna happen anyway... life according to Bracks and Rann in particular.
Waiting to meet the "government" which can spend money without obtaining it from the taxpayer.