Lexi even when I am down,and the black dog has shown his presents a bit of late you brighten me up.
I too thought that of our voters, embraced it, and supped on very bitter reality.
Most of us do think do know do understand.
And we are far from beaten yet, we are outstandingly the better side.
But the whole point of Abbott and his like behavior is that some,not many, but too many, get information from shock jocks the newspaper the fish and chips comes in.
Next week Parliament sits again Gillard will make ground again.
But the dunny door lining Conservative press will knowingly willingly lie.
They will take both sides of the live cattle debate,to flog Labor.
They will be uninterested in the true claims and nature of Abbott.
I will continue to push/drag/shove my party but we are not dead .
I promise the Shadow Ministers are recruiters for Labor.

Do come on you pair.

How could you say the Oz voter is intelligent? over half of them voted first for Rudd, then almost half of them voted for Gillard.

No one in their right mind, who had thought about it, for more than 2 minutes in the polling booth, could ever have voted for either of them.

Now you have a real chance. Just get Turnbull to join Katter, & help with the new party. I won't join, but I will watch.

Belly “Col you seem content to be an unlovable person, are you equally happy to be seen as one who knows so little about most subjects.”

Well Belly, how pretentions of you to make such comment

As for “loved” – trust me, my super-exotic, show pony wife, who sports two medical degrees and an IQ of 170, provides me with more “Love “ than many could handle

As for me “knowing little” – again – your presumption is founded solely on your own personal ignorance –

I suggest you consider how such baseless and worthless opinions promote you as an unhappy inadequate and possibly envious individual

“And confronts the worst opposition in our country's history.”

I suppose the Liberals do suffer in Opposition – they are the natural party of government, afterall.

Conversely, “Opposition” is the natural home of the Socialist Malcontents … a place where they can mouth off all they want and be absolutely responsible for nothing.

And let’s face it, the so called “political party” who tried to fly with “Knuckles” Latham has habitually cultivated a depth of desperation which only narcissistic, power-crazed compulsive-obsessive’s can engender.

but do not ignore its successes.
Belly,
i'll always be grateful for Labor's introduction of compulsory Super but I can't think of anything I would describe as a success. Reason being that the great idea of compulsory Super will very soon be just another pot of Gold for them too enticing not to try & dip their fingers into.

Interesting link, Shadow Minister. One thing that is particularly interesting to me is the consistently high response in the "don't know" column, and the fact that neither party achieves more than 50% in ANY of the categories. While the Liberals are trusted over Labor in almost all categories (as you point out), it seems that the general vibe is that they are the lesser of two evils.

I'd like to think that will change by the next election, but for that to happen we'll need somebody (on either side) to stand up, stand for something and show a bit of leadership. I could not offer my support to either party at the last election: our Liberal candidate (and now local member) made all sorts of slimy promises that he couldn't (and won't) keep, and our Labor candidate didn't even take the campaign seriously. As far as I can tell, neither stood for anything at all. When I looked beyond my electorate for inspiration, I found none. I'd hate to fall into the same quandary next time I head to the ballot box.

'I suppose the Liberals do suffer in Opposition – they are the natural party of government, afterall.

Conversely, “Opposition” is the natural home of the Socialist Malcontents '

I think there's a lot of truth in that. The Greens have shown that they really belong in opposition carping from the sidelines.

And as I said before, even 4 years since the 07 election, we have the Labor party still acting like they are in opposition, and the Libs still acting like they were born to rule, throwing their toys around and being disruptive.

The former is the problem, not the latter. I see much more onus on the governmnet to start governing in a confident, mature way than for the opposition to give them a break and nurse them along.