I watched Q&A on TV, and from the attitudes of National Party leader Warren Truss and the Liberal Party's biggest financial donor Clive Palmer, we can be assured that the coalition will do everything in their power to disrupt stable government. It worked in the 6 months before the election and during the election campaign, but I'm pretty sure the Aussie public now realises it for what it is and will not fall for it again. Should the coalition continually disrupt, abuse and block they will be decimated at the next election.

Given Labors assistance, the medias slanted views and reporting Abbott should have walked in.
Given those gutless self serving leaks, just as Gillard started her campaign ,and had a lead in the polls Abbott had it in his hands.
Abbott built his profile on aggressive confrontation.
It worked, in part.
His front bench has already got its teeth into lies half truths fear and is a place of squaller, it truly is.
I believe Gillard will be firm but inclusive, she has turned one thing around, she now can feed from Abbott's failures his confrontation is going to defeat him.
However we are in trouble, not just Labor but Australia, the things like mining tax had been resolved conflict starts here?
DD try please try to get one or the other in control of the lower house, we must not stall change and improvement .

Belly,

I see that Labor has slipped ahead on the 2pp, but I think your crowing is a case of premature congratulation. Given the latest Newspoll, labor's primary vote has slipped even further to about 36% from 38% at the elections.

Also claiming Labor, the greens and the 3 independents as a coalition is a little rich considering that already Wilke and the greens are threatening to vote against labor policies and RO is already showing signs of pressure. Given that labor only has 71 votes in their own right and need all the votes of their "coalition" to get anything done, I see at least a year of nothing, followed by a collapse and new elections.

Labor will then have a record of 4 years of failure which is hardly a winning position.

As of 14/09/2010, the official AEC tally for the Labor party primary vote is 4,711,418 votes, or 37.99% of total votes.

As of 14/09/2010, the official AEC tally for the Liberal Party primary vote is 3,777,324 votes, or 30.46% of total votes.

Petej, a perfect example of Labor spin, & misinformation.

I now start to under stand! You lot like eating bull sh1t.

Ok Hasbeen, instead of using personal abuse, let's see you point out precisely where the figures I quoted are incorrect.

I got the figures directly from the Australian Electoral Commission's Virtual Tally Room. The figures are the official Australian Electoral Commission's figures.