If we every one who posts or reads OLO reads this thread up to this point.
If we do so with open minds open hearts judge it that way.
We will find links to every day of the recent election and its campaign.
In Boazy post is total lack of understanding and a blind bias.
You look and see what you can find here but know Katter asked for the impossible in some cases, but supports achievable change too.
No party none ever existed that can do our bidding, each of us loves to put the boot in if our wish list as often as silly as Katter, is rejected.
Katter wants NBN and National power grid.
Abbott may well offer him these, that would be a win for my side and Australia.
Stand by, and understand, the coming wrath directed at the three Nats will be unfair, it will tell half this country's voters you got it wrong only my view was right.

<< The three indipendents that are yet to decide are in my view caught between a rock and a hard place >>

Spot on there rehctub. I’ve made the point very strongly on a couple of other threads that the independents should remain entirely INDEPENDENT and just refuse to back either major party.

Whichever one they back, they’ll get a big and lasting backlash from some of their currently loyal supporters.

But then, if they didn’t back either, I guess they’d still have a bunch of people condemning them for not backing the party that they wanted their independent MP to back.

They are caught between a rock, a hard place and an iron bar ready to be swung at the back of their heads!

However, I reckon that a true independent should definitely not back either major party.

So I wonder what Bob the feral Katter is going to do?

Ludwig understand no doubt exists.
If they do your bidding no change is possible.
Everything promised as a result of their leverage is gone.
Parliament could not work and we would be voting before the end of next month.
Some of us are getting information that just is not true, the 3 men do not know yet who they are with.
But an understanding person knows without reserve each day in the new Parliament will be up for change, and every day brings a chance we must vote again.
We habitually talk of political chicanery but I invite you all to review the near lies and open fear campaign on display in this mornings front page of our national news paper and it stable of foreign owned trash papers.
Look once more at the media intent on one side getting those votes not the national interest.

I actually think Bob Katter is an embarrassment. If only Noel Pearson would of run up their in North Queensland. However even with his unintelligible rants Bob's policies are well in advance of the Greens who want to push every indecent law onto the Australian public possible while hiding behind their self righteous mythical environmental faith. Bob actually seems eccentric enough to partner with the Greens failing to see that everything he stands for they actually oppose. Just shows you how easily power can corrupt. I hope I am wrong.

Well, Bob Katter supported the LNP, while the other independents supported the ALP, resulting in a Labor win!

But by all indications Bob made an impartial decision based on his set of the most important criteria.

He set aside the very heavy lobbying from his old friend Kevin Rudd to back Labor.

He could no doubt have sensed that Labor would probably win, but he stuck to his principles and went with the party that he believed he and his electorate should back.

I’ve suddenly found a bit of admiration for him….. after all these years of not thinking too highly of the old coot!!

No doubt Katter went to the Libs because he knew that the other 2 were going to Labor. That way he could stick to his basic coalition principles WITHOUT the risk of inflicting disaster on Australia; the disaster of Abbott as Prime Minister.

The aggressive, whinging, complaining Abbott's true nature will be totally evident to all over the coming months as he does all in his power to obstruct government policy. Then, when the Libs realise he's become a massive liability, they'll knife him. They'll probably bring Turnbull back as leader. I couldn't imaging Julie Bishop ever being their leader. That would be even more embarrassing than Abbott as leader.