Oakeshott merely did as did Peter Wellington in Qld to get Petter Beatty over the line. They sacrificed integrity.

Is Mr. Oakeshott testing Mr. Abbott? Does he want to expose him as a person who does not intend to keep his word? One of the complaints that the independents raised was their lack of trust of Mr. Abbott

Dear SM,

Labor won - Get over it!

Foxy,

Labor managed to retain a tenuous grip on power in spite of losing the confidence of the electorate, and is falling further behind in the opinion polls to their lowest primary vote in 6 years.

None of the factors that TA used to batter Labor with have changed.

The agreement with the independents has already impacted the NBN with a 12 month delay and increased costs, providing excellent ammunition to discredit Labor.

The boats keep coming, and the prison camps have reached record proportions.

NSW and Queensland keep providing examples of Labor waste and corruption.

If Belly and Foxy were getting ready for 3 years of unchallenged Labor rule, then get over it.

SM, the Liberal party primary vote was just a mere 30.46%. They are the 'offical' figures. Methinks you should be whinging more about the Liberal lowly primary vote.

Tony Abbott's achievement at the election was to have nearly 70% of the population NOT vote for his party.

Tony Abbott snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

As Malcolm Turnbull leads the Liberal party into the next election, Tony Abbott will be left wondering "what happened?".

SM

>>> If Belly and Foxy were getting ready for 3 years of unchallenged Labor rule, then get over it. <<<

So no chance that the Libs will try to ensure good governance for Australia, no matter what policies are presented for the benefit of Australian technology, education, infrastructure, health, transport, transitioning to renewable energy - just business as usual then? Which means fear of change by the big end of town.