"Labor with some good management..."

Well that's be a welcome change.

The next election will be about cost of living issues. As was the last one. But the government has very little it can do about it because of the dire economic conditions in which it operates (as I predicted before the last election ....http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9813#333463).

The solutions to these problems are there for all to see but are beyond the capabilities of either government or opposition to articulate let alone implement.

So the government will sit around hoping the inflation rate drops enough to allow the RBA to drop interest rates a little. Thereafter they claim credit (where none is due) and race to the polls before the faecal matter hits the cooling device.

In Australia, first term governments almost never get the flick, even one as bad as this one. So they'll probably stagger over the line, helped by a slight drop in interest rates and a bunch of sweeteners thrown at various groups - money the country can't afford to spend bit which the government can't afford to not spend.

What's another $30 or $40 Billion added to the national debt when they have their phoney-baloney jobs to keep. Give me a harrumph!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmfwklFM-M

"To put it mildly, Dutton is piss-weak."
- His whole party is piss-weak because he leads it.
He's not going to win you any elections but he's probably helping you lose them.

I saw him moaning a day or so back that without nuclear we won't reach our 2050 targets.
Stupid fool.

"The next election will be about cost of living issues. As was the last one."

If we all say we're 'undecided' until the last minute, they'll all try to throw something extra in to buy us off.

I am undecided actually.

I'm not sure dumb is any better than dumber, and I'm not sure it even matters anymore whose running this clownshow.

they'll all try to throw something extra in to buy us off.
Armchair Critic,
That is just so typically opportunist thinking ! It actually makes you more hypocritical than the Govt !
What you should promote is the idea of telling the Govt to tell us who they're going to waste our Taxes on next time so we can decide not to vote for them.

My message to Dutton would be, drop the nuclear-is-the-only-way-to-achieve-net zero mantra and drop Net Zero if he gets elected. Despite the continuing deprivations Australians are experiencing due to the net zero scam, emissions are not coming down - rising in fact - while foreign companies are being allowed to ruin our environment and get rich.

Nuclear is a load of horseshite. Other countries have been using it for years: long before the climate scam. Nuclear power made no difference then, and it never will, because climate will do what the climate does.

Of course, Dutton would ignore any message: he is as big an arsehole as any other politician.

And WTF has this to do with the subject: Islam? SWFA. Another example of posters not having the guts or the brains to start a thread of their own, preferring to piggyback/bludge on those who do contribute.

Talking about politics?

No matter what topics are raised for discussion, sooner
or later the topic of politics finds its way in. As we
can see from this one. Be it reviving the "Family First,"
party, or - "piss-
weak Dutton," or democracy in Australia. Islam, of course
is going to come into the conversation as well - condemnation
and discrimination of certain religions and minority groups
is part of the political scene after all. A "them" and "us"
attitude always seems to raise its ugly head.

That's life - as a famous Aussie said.

It's not what Islam is all about. It's what we're all about.