Thanks for your replies, belly and TBC. I didn't mean to pry - I'm just trying to be a more agreeable person by finding out a bit about people and their motivations rather than simply jumping to conclusions and attacking without cause. Thanks for the insights!

Belly, first it was Rud, with 'increased majority', then he did the old 'Kim Hughes', 'it's all to hard' act and fell on his sword.

Now you push the madam PM's wagon with the same old 'increased majority'. Have you seen the latest polls?

A tip for you.

Wash your feet well old mate, as you seem to take one foot out of your mouth, only to replace it with the other.

Another tip.

Tell your blues to come out in game three with a 'game plan', not a 'fighting plan' and they just might salvage some credabillity.

Five in a row and counting!.History in the making.

TBC look honesty is of value.
I do not dislike you, but must defend my views.
In your posts shining like a beacon is your leftist views.
You take OLO to task for? think much as most Australians do.
Believe me we are in fact very different people here, from very different back ground and learning experiences.
But as conservative cry foul at election of ALP governments and the poor often vote conservative we are not a great deal different.
The old days of unionism are gone, the future is for modern unionism that will not look over its shoulder to communism or Socialism for its ideas.
The union you belittle most is getting back to its foundation SERVICE members even if just one,are getting news and a visit .
In the middle of the fight against work choices after an address from a admitted communist union head thirty members stressed if he ever called them comrade again they would leave the movement.
I grow every day,want even after Leave to serve the union movement your idea of a unionist is dead,a million non existant ghosts walking behind no one.
I am proud of the past but have moved on, the similarity's you see in OLO are not ganging up, you see folk looking through eyes that see a new reality you can not see.
Abbott clearly,is the next candidate to fall.

rechtub for those remarks? you pay for the snags but thanks for pointing out you use hot water.
Blues? if they won it would be a fix, we will maybe have seen fixes in the game.
Now bloke,gee I love debating the uninformed, none of us knew how hard Kevin had become to work with.
In a post about a month ago I warned he had backed down so often he would not on the very issues he had to.
See also I do not trust Julia.
Spend 20 minutes every day rearding your newspapers, and the national ones, see the different slants in them.
after a while you will feel nearly taste the public view point, not the media slant.
This nation is about to fall in love,with Julia.
It is about to be governed much better,,,,you are not far from saying that too.
See she knows her own best outcomes, knows the things you want, will get further in stopping boat people.
Re introduce an ETS ,so toothless even Abbott's successor will pass it.
Mining tax? what little she gets after surrender we the pay as you earn tax payer will makeup,,,serves ourselves right for not putting Australia before our share market.
In time after THE INCREASED majority you will forgive your self for being wrong,forget I was right.
Mate my feet never recovered from my early years in QLD the heavy boots come of and I wander around bare foot, think I Would put them in my mouth?
Maybe I best bring the snags your view of food concerns me.