No SM........ the opposition's task is to get rid of Tony Abbott and replace him with someone more useful ............. like Wilson Tuckey or Bronwyn Bishop.

Benq and Foxy,

The two forms of government that can exist are:
- inclusive where the party in power consults the opposition and at least tries to accommodate their concerns most of the time,
- Exclusive, where the party in power completely ignores the opposition.

The latter is certainly true here. The result has been the blocking of legislation in the senate.

In the case of exclusive government, the only purpose left to the opposition is to get into power and get the government out of power. Turnbull trying to offer an alternative policy that differed partially from the labor platform did not give the voters incentive to change.

Abbott deliberately differentiated the opposition and hammered home a powerful negative campaign against Rudd and Labor. (In politics, if you cannot win, simply make your opponent lose.)

If JG is looking like being in a winning position, Abbott while not necessarily the man to govern, is certainly the main to shred her credibility.

1-0 to the coalition, and in JR's words: Game on.

Surprising as it may be, Yabby, but I haven't been following your ongoing war against the women of OLO all over the forum. I simply commented about the inappropriateness of a particularly misogynist post you made on this entirely unrelated thread.

<< There are in fact females who think things through a little,
but they are few and far between. >>

You don't exactly redeem yourself with that nonsense.

Shadow Minister: << In the case of exclusive government, the only purpose left to the opposition is to get into power and get the government out of power. >>

To my mind, that's one of the biggest problems with our current version of democracy. It'd be great if Tweedledum and Tweedledumber were as interested in governing the country for the good of Australians as they are in simply holding on to power.

If Julia's election is a win Shadow Minister I want be about after your mob has a loss.
say election night
see you here.

<< There are in fact females who think things through a little,
but they are few and far between. >>

CJ: You don't exactly redeem yourself with that nonsense.

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Har har! Yabby concedes that there is an occasional female somewhere who might aspire to match his superior intellect.

This is so funny!

CJ thanks for catching that gobstopper :)

Dear Yabby,

What you did choose to do was to make
inappropriate gender-based comments
rather than tackling the issues under
discussion. That is the objection that
is being raised here, and evaded by
you. Your comment made to Pynch
was totally out of line, as you well
know. Back peddling won't work.
As for the corporate thread - read the
title of that thread again - and it may just
dawn on you what the issues actually were.