The majority of selfish people I have met are vehement ALP supporters, especially in the Public Service. Only today one of the most tight-ar$ed characters I know told me that he didn't like the Liberals because they only think of themselves ? I don't vote Liberal or Labor but my vote goes to the conservative side of politics. I am so utterly disillusioned by Labor's smoke screen of being the workers' party. Biggest load of crap if ever there was one. It's nothing but an academic yuppy club that always blows our taxes on themselves. The Liberals aren't saints but they are more responsible. I have never lost employment during conservative rule but I have lost it twice now when Labor was in. I respect & admire the original Labor doctrine but unfortunately, under Gough Whitlam the pragmatists of politic were sacrificed to pave the way for academic hangers on experts. Rudd is not the worst but he isn't an improvement on Whitlam either. I honestly expected more pragmatism from someone who claims to come from a farming background.

The unfortunate reality, is that each and every successive PM will be the worst ever. Basically due to our hopeless biparty preferential voting system and compulsory voting.

We dont vote for who is the best, we vote for who is least worse. This way, we are garanteed to have mediocre political representation every time.

Wow, you guys have got this all to yourselves don't you!
The instigator of this thread conveniently neglects to mention the small matter of the GFC and the apparent need for stimulous spending, not to mention that the surplus was born of the mining boom and had nothing to with economic management. Nor is it mentioned that Howard pledged an even bigger spending binge than Labour's, before the election. Nor is it mentioned that essential (public) services were allowed to degenerate under the conservatives while the private sphere prospered and money piled up!
Get me a bucket!
Get ready for more pain, fellows, because Labour will win with a leg in the air!
But don't despise the pollies; they're your mirror image!

After my daughter "helped" with the stimulus, for my own sake I had to take away her new credit card.

I just wish we could do that with Rudd.

I do not see much insight or understanding in the thread.
Yes Rudd is down in the polls, yes he has dropped the ball.
Inferences that all Polly's are no good are thrown about.
Yet this worst ever will still win the election.
Clearly.
And some will still cry voters got it wrong, even that some should not be able to vote.
It is hard, harder for some, to understand it is them, not the world who fail to understand.

I haven’t posted for a bit. However I cannot continue to fail to express my disappointment with Kevin Rudd. He is a bit of a Promisin Jack. Or is that a Promisin Jackass. He promised to govern as a Constitutionalist, but is really a Labor Party Hack, unwilling to confront his lawless and unconstitutional State Mates, in a head to head brawl.

His core promise to end homelessness, for the 100,000 who must sleep rough again this winter, is a disgrace. His other core promise to govern under the Constitution is torn asunder, by his failure to know and understand that judges, uncapitalised and plural in S 79 Constitution, is not the same as Judge, capitalised and singular. His syntax chip in his CPU is flawed.

I have said before he will be the 21st century Scullin. Sadly I was one of his most ardent supporters in 2007. He was more Christian than John Howard, but not enough of a Christian to understand that when Judges rule, there is famine and despair in the land. There is only one Judge, and that is Almighty God. While the State, any State appoints a Judge and Magistrate to be the Local God, without reference to the Holy Bible from the one profession Jesus Christ despised, the lawyers, then the people are oppressed and we do not have peace order or good government. Government by fear is not good government.

The only unforgivable sin, for a Christian is in Matthew 7 where it says Judge not that ye be not judged. Only a Pagan can be a Judge and Magistrate. If Abbott will accept that, he will win handsomely. He just may have enough Christianity to be a great leader. Watch the syntax. Punctuation and Capital letters matter