Shadow Minister indeed is harming his own party.
In every post.
Rechtub please bloke read the papers, Gillards party got MORE not LESS votes 30.000 of them.
And anyone who truly thinks any one got a mandate is silly.
If ten minutes in to the first sitting it swings to Abbott he would tread the same path as Gillard.
YES Labor got a flogging and yes asked for it, but are we blind?
It will be 70 more years before they fall to that level again.
Abbott will never govern us.
Turnbull may.
Confrontation will remove Abbott within a year if Turnbull replaces him Labor will need to be very good to beat him.
If we last twelve months, if the greens get the balance of power a DD election is more than likely why? Abbott will be well out of favor by then.

Belly,

Another prediction. I could put money on the opposite happening.

Good to see you admitting that Labor has no mandate to govern. P.S. 2pp is not the same as votes.

Just wait until Rob Oakeshott caves in to craven self interest.

Belly, with your history of lack of success in the fortune telling business, you really aught to trade your crystal ball in on a spade, & go back to digging holes. I'm sure you'll be more successful at that.

Hasbeen bring that nappy on board, it is changing back to its original color.
SM humble pie, it is very likely you may feast on it.
RO now wants a liberal in the chair!
How do you back away from that?
His speech in taking so long to say he was not going for the job was,, well elongated.
Now soon, you may find your self a fan of this bloke, ROFL!

No why avoid it?
Hasbeen that was,well a low blow.
Sir you infer I am a trench digger it seems you think that is both a lessor life and proof of lower intelligence.
You confirm my view of you bloke, you want in posts like that boat one to impress us you are upper class.
You impose a view of your self on us.
I see it differently.
As a much younger man I often got invites to north shore homes in Sydney, party's and such.
I will remember till I die , and laugh often about it,a self promoter had a display Cabernet full of the high priced brands of liquors and wines, locked.
Each was full of colored water, set to impress.
What few knew this twit had followed me every evening after work and borrowed cash, he never paid me back.
Another who had lent money told me the secrete of those bottles,
Self portraits have never impressed me.
In my long life I have dug trenches even in QLD carried the night soil and rubbish away.
I hasbeen am what I am with pride.
Not the pride misplaced self importance can buy but pride in being me.
That nappy my Friend is on display yet again have you by any chance been raiding your neighbors rubbish bins for used bottles?

"Mr Oakeshott said that, as support was "shifting", he was not prepared to put his name forward to be Speaker."

It would appear that Rob is beginning to read the writing on the wall.

If as I suspected, the pairing arrangement is legally dodgy, it will give Labor 71 votes with 4 independents, and the coalition 73 with one independent.

Things are looking interesting.

P.S. Some more nasty things are beginning to surface from the BER fiasco, and the UN report on internet infrastructure contradicts the basis of NBN.