Turnbull blew his foot clean off with "utegate" and now Rudd and the rest of the Labor party can smell blood. It is hardly suprising that they are going in for the kill.

"as there is nothing like listening to a politician in self righteous mode lecturing other politicians on ethics and integrity"

Indeed and didnt we all laugh recently when Malcolm had a go. You seem to have forgotten that it was Turnbull who started all the "resign" and "unethical" BS. Getting upset that Rudd takes all advantage of Turnbulls stuff up is far more of a pot and kettle farce than anything you have written of.

'All that money, for nothing?'

Nothing? Fits nicely with the ALP's Historical Profile .

That's what the People wanted and still do , Credit Card Mentality ?

Get a grip.
Politics at best is just entertainment. It's the illusion that they are trying to change things when in fact their role is to keep things pretty much the same for their respective masters.
They represent two wings of essentially the same party arguing over whose turn it is to ride in the Com-cars.

When these two go there are others just like them waiting to takes their places.

It may come as a shock to many but the theatrical performances by politicians isn’t at all what was intended Parliament should be about. Sure, the Framers of the Constitution anticipated political parties to be part of the Parliament. They anticipated that it would be where those elected representatives would represent their constituents and achieve the best outcome in the federal arena.

Sure it can be boring at times and so who would begrudge them of some jokes at times to keep everyone alert but what we now see is a display of melodramatically conduct occupying the time of members at huge cost to us all, after all we are ending up paying their “allowances” and we get nothing in real terms in return.

While the Parliament has rules such as 5 minutes for a reply, etc, somehow wasting the time of so many seems to be the norm without any time limits.

We should keep in mind that they might like to be entertainers but we are not paying them for this. Afterall it would be a lot cheaper to hire some entertainers then the waste of public revenue to pay so many Members of Parliament sitting there in the Parliament.

Kevin Rudd so much made known during the 2007 federal election that he is a “federalist”, shame he lost the perception of its true meaning as if he knew it he would not go on in the way he did ever since he was elected.

Regretfully, it doesn’t matter who is elected as most will perform likewise, once in power.

What we therefore need is for parliamentarians an education in etiquettes and what actually is expected from them as a Parliamentarian, such as appropriately representing the constituents. We might even get a real federation where Members of Parliament are attending to very serious business. As for Ministers of the Crown, they should be aware that once they become a Minister they must ignore their political party alliance and act in the interest of all, as after all this is their job for which they get paid a salary!

I resent anyone trying to use religion with politicians as the Framers of the Constitution made clear this was to be avoided.

Every person has a right to his/her religious belief but likewise those who do not practice any are entitled not to be bothered with that of others who do.

We have politicians falling over each other to get to all kind of religious denominations for election purposes and that just exposes how much a fake they are.

In my view we would do far better to elect INDEPENDENTS as while this may result to a chaos at least better then a DICTATORSHIP that we now have where the electors have no say who becomes the Prime Minister and it is all within a political party decided instead of it being the Governor-General doing so, as should be done.

The previous warmongering Governor-General underlines the danger of not having a true representative of the Queen appointed.

It should be understood that ministers are appointed to “ADVISE” the Governor-General and not that the Prime Minister takes over the job of the Governor-General in all but in name.

Now we have some Governor-General travelling about the world at our cost in an unconstitutional manner because her job as Governor-General is only effective while in the Commonwealth of Australia and not beyond.

Over the years I came to the conclusion that Malcolm Turnbull is ignorant to accept sound advise as he is too much up in himself how good he is because of his private life successes and that is a real shame because if he was a bit more humble and not so arrogant and was a better listener he might have been more successful.

Kevin Rudd, turns out to be the bully of the playground who thinks he can get away with whatever.

In most professions you need to succeed through studies to get successful and get a good paid job, with politicians they just have a political party deciding who next be the candidate and that is it and intelligence often is non-existing.