The Australian Peoples' Party has all the answers, does it tapp? Just like the Democrats did and the Greens. How about the DLP, the New Liberals, the Liberal Reform Party, Steele Hall's Party in SA (can't remember its name). Most have fizzled out. The Democrats are fizzling out, and the Greens will soon fizzle out after they fool people by doing deals with the Coaltion and Labor to entrench their personal power. Even the Nationals are on the fizz.

We don't need more politicans, tapp. There are too many now. We need to teach the fools we do have who is boss.

I appreciate your enthusiam for a new toy, but it is doomed before it starts. Particularly with a Red name. "Peoples' Party" is the stuff of communist China. When any organisation has to put "people" or "democratic" in the title, watch out!

I don't give a tinkers curse what religion our leaders are so long as they are Judeo Christian and NOT Muslim.
Also whatever JC religion they are , they keep it to themselves and not force their religious views on the rest of us.
Christian believers are far from being angelic but at least they are not as barbaric, cruel and sadistic as Islam.

"it is well known that Keating stabilised the health of the economy off the back of the recession."

Really?

That was the recession he created of course!

Had Keating & the profligate ones been in power, instead of their natural role, of opposition, from where they can make emotional pleadings and raving statements, the self-righteous outburst of the impotent, which we all know mean nothing,

the spending would have gone on, unrestrained.

GST would not be around to balance the budgets.

Archaic practices on the wharf and in the work place would still be entrenched (the supplication of government to their union bosses).

Unemployment would be at 10%

Spending on welfare subsidies (all those unemployed) would out strip income tax and we would be in deficit.

Budgetary Deficits are the prime cause of inflation (consumption outstripping supply) so we would have had

the recession of 2000 and been begging at the door of the IMF by 2004.

That is why Labor make Liberals not only "look good" but show how superior Liberal government is in displaying greater leadership, statesmanship, foresight and realism in just about everything they do.

It is just that compared to Liberals, Labor are a bunch of retards running around beating their chests and drooling at the supposed "injustice" and "unfairness" which result from those with drive and energy doing better than those who choose to sit on their butts and wait for the handouts.

Look no further to appreciate the incompetence of Labor than their panicky head-banging in the states regarding the drought. Apart from putting water up by 7% next year, half of which will go into general reveune - the SA Labor government's only action re water is to move SA Water into new rented premises at a rental which is going to cost us a mint. The Minister responsible, Michael Wright, sounded pathetic on radio this morning as he tried to gibber his way out of the roasting he was given.

State Labour is made up of the same type of people as Federal Labor. The same incompetence that the last Federal Labor government exhibited can still be seen in the States to remind us of the dangers of putting in a Rudd government. For all their faults, the Coalition knows how to add up and use money properly.