We may have lost Parliament but I sincerely believe that we will never lose the Senate over the next three years. Work Choice will remain you can bet on it. The minor parties and Independants will surely support us. We have a far greater formidable team with Brendan at the helm than the Social Democrats have. All of the laws in work Choice will remain intact until the next General Election and for Sharon Burrows to put that orange booklet into the receptacle was far too hasty as it will not be abolished during the life of this present Government you only have to look at the numbers in the Senate.

so very true, julie!

i myself am in frequent conversation with our gracious queen, and she assures me she is working behind the scenes to ameliorate the effects of this shocking (and suspicious) socialist victory.

if we both kneel beside our beds before sleeping, and pray for our good queen bess, she will protect us, with a bit of help from those glorious rearguard angels in the senate. so, courage! brave one, and grit your teeth when the socialist huns become outrageous.

Anyone claiming that the Greens, Family First and Nick Xenophon will support WorkChoices is deluding themselves, or is being a troll. Hell, it seems half the Liberal party don't even support it anymore. It was a not unreasonable idea, very poorly put together that has resulted in more red-tape for businesses, and a number of employers apparently forgetting the lessons of the 20th century - you don't get productivity and competitiveness by exploiting workers; you get unhappy workers who join and form unions to protest at unreasonable demands.

Workchoices was one of the major issues of this election. And the Libs lost by a landslide. Wouldn't you think that they would drop their pursuit of those exploitive goals. Don't they realize Howard's gone - they don't have to be frightened to express their own opinions anymore. I mean look at how vocal - Costello is now. Before, he was to scared to even whisper - 'Republic.'

And as for Brendan Nelson and Julie Bishop - hopefully they won't last too long. What's new about them and their thinking? Everytime Nelson appears on the TV - there's a framed photo of Howard in the background.

Great idea Julie (he says not entirely honestly), then Labor can blame the libs for them not being able to "fix" workchoices. As things fall to bits it will because the libs are blocking reform. A great way to hand both houses to labor - or the senate to the minor parties.

Let labor implement the policies they took to the electorate. Speak against changes which you think are damaging to australia but if they are changes pretty much in the same form that were put to the electorate let them pass.

Feel free to block legislation which you disagree with and which was not put to the electorate but I suspect that attempts to block what was put to the electorate will cost us all dearly.

Accept that while you may believe in workchoices (and I think that most of the opposition to it was based on a dishonest union campaign) you lost the battle for it in the electorate. You were outmanouvered by the unions and labor.

Clinging to it will just convince people that the libs need even less say.

R0bert

Ah, the Liberals lost control of the Senate. Given that they'll need to rely on the Greens, I think your cunning plan is flawed.

Also, who are the "Social Democrats"?