'The profiling shows marginal Labor voters live in the middle income outer urban areas now hardest hit by rising unemployment.'

Which is more the result of the thrust of Rudd's policies than the world economic meltdown.

It's what happens when you return to your socialist roots after feigning being an economic conservative.

The term economic conservative and his backflip boasting is going to dog Rudd at the next election.

Will these people you have outlined vote for Turnbull , I don't think so , Turnbull is too unsophisticated , his brain does not hook up to his tongue until he is half way through his first sentence .
This is a severe handicap it indicates he is not on top of his game .
The people you mention are I consider looking for a Conservative with sympathetic aura , when I look at Turnbull I see a well equipped Bull whose brains are in his horns .

Are you suggesting that the stimulus has actually CREATED unemployment rather than minimised it Kieth? Are you saying that if no stimulus had been implemented at all, unemployment would be only around 4% now?

I assume you have some solid evidence to back up such a claim (if that is what you are claiming).

All this as opposed to the last downturn where the government of the day largely took the neo-liberal advice to do nothing and allow the market to "self correct", whereby unemployment promptly rose to almost 11%.

Polling shows that Australians OVERWHELMINGLY agree with the stimulus and indeed, there are no shortage of those who realise that they only remained employed as a result of it.

no fozz, it's shifted demographics.

I think the minimul rise in interest rates says things are looking ok, as the situation goes.
All the money being spent is for our long term good, as infrastructure.
There are projects being done that are years ahead of their time.
Queensland would need another lifetime to catch up on things. They still suffer from the Joe era.