Insightful comments foxy.
Hoolly, you do know why we call it two party preferred do you?
Your advice would see the second last you vote for elected if we all did it.
Love knowing how little some know about the subject.
It is clear while we like democracy if our team wins we blame it if they do not.
Rabbott has failed he is yesterdays flop.
hop away bloke leave room for another Lazarus, Turnbull.

The problem for the liberal party is that no matter who leads them to the next election they won't win (yes i may live to eat my words ). Australians will feel the pull back to what they knew for many years, but in the end they will stay the course they chose to go last time. The Lib's will win again when either they install a leader without baggage from the Howard government or enough time has passed that all memory has gone. EG: John Howard, by the time he came to power we had forgotten his association to the Fraser government and his 22% comercial interest rates, As Bob Hawke was seen as clean of the Whitlam era.
Surely someone in the party can be found that has a fresh face and direction for the future, but we probably wouldn't elect them as we didn't John Hewson.

As a person I somehow thinks we get a more honest person in Tony Abbott then we have in Gillard, Hockey or others.
Tony may have his silly antics but at least he is more human then the front presented by Gillard and Hockey.
Then again as like Gillard it seems Tony also have no reading and writing skills when it comes to answering correspondences, or for that matter even to acknowledge them, where as Howard and Rudd displayed them.
Perhaps we do better having a duo Prime ministerial set up that Tony and Julia (Gillard) are going to be partners in crime as joint Prime Ministers as after all with the AFL having up to 4 captains in one team why not apply the same in politics and we may just kick out both major political parties and then vote only for INDEPENDENTS.
Can anyone explain why we have to pay for a security guard for Julia’s boyfriend? Surely he isn’t elected and isn’t married to her and so I view has no business costing the taxpayers monies for a security guard. Just shows you elect someone and next they may have a harem with them and all of them will need a body guard but only if the taxpayers are paying for it.

Dear Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka,

He is not Julia Gillard's "boyfriend," but her
partner, and as such it is normal procedure for
leaders of all nations, (for security reasons)
to be provided with a bodyguard for
family members. (They could be held
to ransom). Kevin Rudd's family were provided
with bodyguards, as were John Howard's, and so
on. Normal procedure.

Again foxy spot on, lets look at that post.
Surely it is evidence not being a follower of the party in power can lead some to appear bigoted?
At this time security is a real problem, traditionally our country's head and family are subject to very clear threats.
Here in threads about politics in OLO, you can find a truth.
Australia's distrust of politicians is grown within us all.
We taunt those we do not follow even fish for reason to dislike them, and often say things that are just stupid ,even bigoted.
Boyfriend is in this case a sexist and abusive way to talk of our leaders partner, it could be the partner of a great number of Australians.

No one has responded to my last post, particularly my suggestion of Scott Morrison for Libs leader.

What the Libs desperately need is a leader who carries no baggage, is highly articulate and well-presented and who can bring off a substantial change in policy direction, in the right direction, as effectively as the change from Rudd to Gillard appears to be.

What are the Libs to do if they are to have ANY chance of winning the next election?

I’d say that they have simply GOT to put Morrison in the leadership!
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=E3L