Protagoras,
Well said (hyperbole aside).
At my most negative I'd say to Mal pick up your tent, your roadblock mates on both sides of the houses and get the hell out of the way.

So I am getting cocky Peter The Believer?
Tell you what save this post , throw it at me in 12 months if I am wrong.
I post what I think, true without biases.
Here are my views Turnbull is gone, will not be leader, maybe even in the house in 12 months.
Rudd wins with increased majority.
Conservatives find a way to avoid double election, they must or suffer for generations.
However Rudd, no matter what he says, will push for such an election.
The senate is in the hands of the kids and he can not govern with out trying to unseat them, if he gets his election.
Greens alone have balance of power.

Examinator - Turnbull’s softening approach on delaying electricity costs over 25 years, won’t see citizens putting on an extra sweater – they'll continue on rampage as usual, therefore I think your suggestion has merit.

“Rudd will continue to be safe provided he does not lose the Christian centre. If he descends into animal and tree worship, like the Greens want him to, and ignores the sixty five percent majority, of Australians.....,”

Peter the Believer – Has anyone told you lately that the planet’s not for sale? Has anyone told you that the “animal(s) and tree(s)” you say the Greens worship, are essential for human survival, or that the plundering of forests, slaughter of wildlife, destruction of habitats and the intensive farming of livestock is threatening human health?

Seventy per cent of emerging human diseases are now of zoonotic origin. Zoonotic diseases have jumped the species and medical science is flat out endeavouring to halt the dreadful effects.

In fact British scientists have hypothesised that the Mad Cow Disease mutation of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, afflicting humans, could have been a result of feeding human bones from India’s funeral pyres to British cattle. Have you no respect for the animals which keep you fat and contented or the trees which mitigate man's pollution?

Now that you've evoked my ire, allow me to read you the riot act:

“As for the children of men, it is God’s way of testing them and showing that they are in themselves beasts, for the lot of man and of beast are one lot; the one dies as well as the other. Both have the same life breath and man has no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity. Both go to the same place; both were made from dust and to the dust they both return!” (Ecclesiastes 16:18)

So you see Peter the Believer, in YOUR God’s eyes, you are worth no more than a sparrow!

Belly
The senate is in the hands of the kids and he can not govern with out trying to unseat them, if he gets his election.
Greens alone have balance of power.

And life as we know it will be over.

No more rec fishing, no more camp fires, forget frazer island, you can just read about it in the history books.

Are you arare that it is a criminal offence to get caught fishing in a 'green zone'. There are no signs by the way, just a line on a map. Meanwhile, kids continue to roam our streets yet nothing is done about it. But, fish in a no-go zone, and you're a criminal.

You think it's tough now to clear forerts in readiness for bush fire season.

No radical thinking group should ever be able to have balance of power, full stop!

Look at the progress made by government once that gay bloke from tassie was gone. Harradine was a prime example of letting ones personal beleifes cloud their decisons.

I also think the labor party starts and stops with Krud. I think he is a good man, but there is daylight between first and second in that party.

Meanwhile, the states continue to suffer under labor, something that is eating away at a federal level like a cancer.

Aunty Anna is one of the federal libs best weapons.