Rache,

Our relations with China, India and Indonesia are at a very low ebb all because kevvy has already been an international embarassment. His presence and pretence at Copenhagan only add to our ridicule in many more nations around the world.

Unfortunately your argument is a fallacy. Tony Abbott isn't the PM and as such he doesn't have to have an alternative policy until he needs to present one at a Federal Election. It is Governments who can initiate policy and enact legislation which is then scruitinised by Oppositions and formerly the media and people with opinions. That's been the nature of the very successful operation of our political system for generations. Why do you want to change that? Is it because Kevvy is so berefit of original thought? Is Kevvy hamstrung now because he hasn't John Howard to follow? Now there is nobody else from whom he can copy, pinch policy and cry 'me too'?

This exposure of Kevvy's emptiness was inevitable in the grand scheme of things. You are merely re-inforcing that with your demand Tony Abbott behave like a Government rather than an Opposition.

Banjo,

"Why not comment on Switzerland's decision?" Why? I'm not Switz, and I have commented about their system before, so I wasn't surprised by the the result.

As for CIR, nope, not a fan *under the current system*. It can easily becoming an expensive and disruptive tool for the extremists. Again, this is a topic I have commented at length on it before.

It’s a bit of a tangent to the subject of this thread, but neither am I a fan of Citizen Initiated Referenda.

That’s all. It’s late. I’m going to bed!