Well, I think that Latham is right on the money.

Here’s the 60 Minutes segment. Well worth seeing for anyone who cares about the quality of the election campaigns and the quality of our next government –

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/7944020/latham-at-large

or a briefer overview –

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-election/leave-ballot-blank-latham-tells-voters-20100815-1257h.html#poll

Very interesting thing about that poll (hit the second link in my last post and scroll down) –

33% of respondents (nearly 30 000 of them as of 10.00pm on 16/08/10) have agreed that Mark Latham’s call to lodge a blank vote is fair enough.

This is a very big percentage compared to something like 4% of blank or informal votes being lodged at previous elections, most of which have been put down to voter error causing nullification of their ballot papers.

So it would seem that Latham’s message has penetrated the populace. It will hopefully translate into a very sizeable null vote being lodged next Saturday.

PS – you can still vote in this poll for another two days.

Ludwig truly Latham is a fool, many who do not understand him think he is throwing mud at the other side so I agree with him, that is wrong.
Latham throws mud at every side and himself.
No way we should be seeing the fool being paid to be the trouble maker he is.
Any one who votes informal has zero right to complain about politics.
30% will not vote informal ever in this country.
Latham has said it all, the whole life he built around politics and change fell around his ears, he failed so he wants to tell us to be failures too.
Politics in this country ALWAYS brings out the best and the worst but as Costello said voters usualy get it right.
The hardest nearly impossible thing to grasp is NO PARTY can give any of us all we want.
Gillard is now being pushed to reverse her policy on our future population by big self interested business.
Finally polls are at best questionable, after this election headlines will question great difference in polls and actual out come.

NO PARTY can give any of us all we want.
That's correct Belly & so it should be. It's not what we want it's what we can do to work with a party in a combined effort to have a functional society. THE main problem is that so many think it their god-given right to just demand. This mentality is a trait that is fostered by particularly left wing factions who have no concept what responsibility towards others is all about. Labor was established to counter this attitude & now a hundred years later the ALP is crapping on Labor.

Dear Belly,

There seems to be an overwhelming public cynicism pervading this election campaign. I can't recall an election where there seemed so little scope for choice, all delivered in a nauseating package of media hype. Both parties seem to exude the same level of odium. If I were to vote Labor, it would only be for the reason that I like Abbott less.
I have always considered myself a political animal, yet during this campaign I have contrived to avoid almost all the electioneering (quite a feat).
I'll be voting Green in the senate and maybe even in the house of reps (instead of informal).

Poirot, me too yes I agree colorless uninspiring and boring.
But not Tony Abbott not the GFC deniers not the lies and fear conservatives are not ready to rule.
And they would be worse than the ALP.
Sad but true sheer fear of Abbott is the best reason to vote Labor I ever found.
Indy did not bother reading it all just slipped away if the sand box is not enough let me know I will buy you a puppy to keep you happy nice group of Lab pups up the road.
See you here next week we can talk about the new Parliament while waiting for the senate count to finish.