Communicat Australian voters have already judged the ALP in state governments by electing every one of them.
This too is judgment on your Conservatives, and proof of failure.
I am content to wait the judgment of those voters in this federal election and only ask is Peter the best leader your mob can find?
Howard is not that is for sure, if John Howard is a true conservative not a self interested person-he is about to find a reason to leave Parliament now.
Peter are you watching your thread? are you prepared to let Australians see just what has been given away in workchoices AWAs?
Much more than one poster claims including leave loadings and overtime, holidays ,some like picnic day, and much more.
Peter Sir given the 5 year length of most new AWAs and no pay rises in that term , could you live without tax rises in that term?
Could you justify 5 years without a pay rise for low income earners?

Having ridden on the tide of the campaign against the federal governments IR laws, Rudd is now hightailing out of union town. After the audience with Emperor Rupert he has been busily turning himself into a John Howard clone. The back peddling is excruciating to witness! God what some people will do to lick the salt of power!

Amazingly, the only socialist left (obviously ‘Christian’ in this case*) in parliament these days is none other than PETER COSTELLO himself. I really want to thank you for the Future Fund Pete, because that is the first step to state intervention in financial markets. The dream of social and state intervention in financial markets was initiated in Australia by the ACTU’s now forgotten ‘Australia Reconstructed’. This fine proposal was thrown in the bin by the hacks that run the ALP and Trade union movement almost as soon as it was printed. It took a neo liberal like Costello to resurrect it in a different guise. So once again, thanks Pete. Let’s hope the ALP has the sense to build on this foundation. I doubt it, since supposedly ‘left’ parliamentarians like Tanner don’t like the idea of the future fund.
* what the hell is ‘Christian’ socialism anyway. What would ‘Buddhist’ socialism be; or ‘Muslim’ socialism or ‘Taoist’ socialism or ‘Zen’ socialism (I like the sound of the last one).

Hasn't Peter come a long way since his days in the Monash Social Democratic Students Association? These days Peter promotes such core Christian principles as providing tax cuts as 'incentive' for those on $100,000 a year and more, while allowing the poor and underprivileged to wait three years for 'elective surgery' without which they live with constant and chronic pain. Meanwhile the ALP promise to hold taxes down as a proportion of GDP, and focus on $3 billion in budget savings in an economy of around $1 trillion. Given Rudd's 'education revolution', it is clear where these funds will be spent, but what about an extra $10 billion to cut waiting lists, incorporate dental care into Medicare, restore the pensions of the disabled and single parents, and provide scope to retain services and infrastructure development once the mining boom ends? Surely out of an economy of around $1 trillion this is not too much to ask.

Yep,what did I say a little while ago about Rudds duds and Julia who will be soon wearing them.We have the two GG's Garrett and Gillard who will bring us the Trogan Horse of panic environmentalism and extreme socialism that will make all free thinking Aussies slaves to their narrow ideology.

On the other hand we have the Coalition who have made big business their masters and ordinary folk are just merely pawns.

Labor have not the talent or intellectual prowess to Govern OZ,but the Coalition have made big business our uneasy masters.

Peter, why should I vote for your mob?

Do any of you posters remember when John Howard was treasurer?

I can remember the high inflation, high interest rates (22% for a 90 day bank bond).

Remember how mean and tricky he and co have been over all sorts of issues.

The Libs have lied and cheated, taken us to war on pure fabrication, allowed the AWB to pay bribes to Sadam Hussein and go unpunished.

You want women to have babies to populate Aus, then expect them to get back into the paid workforce and pay mega-bucks on childcare. The same childcare industry that is dominated by your big business mates.

Your mob introduced the IR laws without a whisper before the last election.

Then you import labour to drive down wages (Vanstone told us so). Et cetera etcetera ....

People have short memories, so maybe your mob might have a chance as you are all quite slippery with the truth. But you will not get my vote.

Question Peter, those IR laws, the safety net you are about to return to workchoices.
Can you tell us what happens to those who have already signed a 5 year agreement?
As opposed to those who will do so after you return the safety net?
And why mate did you take it away in the first place?
Been a long while coming but Australians are sick f the miss leading and out right lies bloke!
Roll on the election