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I will be flogged for this, from my closest life long mates.
But power brokers got us into this and refuse to get us out.
Bill Shorten has been tucked away in case he is needed after we are trashed.
Renew the party?
What party
Why lie why tell us the party members matter?
Hold a focus group, keep the real ALP members away fill it with school teachers lawyers and,oh yes! GREENS.
How Big Mr Beaty, will the hole be, after you get rid of Rudd?
You are unfit to comment bloke
POWER BROKERS has became filthy words they never should be uttered in mixed company.

Dear Lexi

Thanks for your reply and i agree with you. Its too early to write off ALP with Julie as PM. I am not going to argue who is the better keeper when it comes to $. We already know that. I think there are more people who vote on a moral issues now then ever before. The ALP should be getting the feel of that. That got a slap over the knuckles from our pensioners with the idea of offering them a new TV or whatever. Once they would have jumped. No moral issues and a real fear of this countries direction are taking off a bit more.
Regardless or not if we liked her for dumping Kevin07 i believe in all honesty she did it for the party and it took guts-even if some didnt approve.

Moral issues like gay marriage climate change live exports just to mention a few are all really tough choices - but shes known more fiber than a lot of formers. People understand shes in a tough spot but if she goes with whats right morally I think ALP will have our PM returned tbo.

It think it is time that Kev was removed completely from the equation. A nice little diplomacy job in the country of his choice?

This would free up some space for new contenders or the current one to improve her game.

Ammonite 60% say they prefer Kev.
That is no reason to agree.
But it is reason to ask.
What if we dump this very good, outstandingly so, Foreign Minister?
To protect a woman that is unloved and bound to be forever.
What do we tell the Rudd fans?
As they leaves us to vote against us.
Some idiot has seen this as a way to help Gillard, it inflicts great harm to me party.
Let us also consider this.
soon Abbott will be dumped, he will, Turnbull vs Gillard? bloodbath.

Belly

As a PM Kevin makes a great Foreign Minister, however his presence is preventing the Labor Party from reinventing itself into a cohesive, functioning party.

Dear Kerryanne,

Thanks for responding to my post and I agree with what you say. She's
got a tough job and it will be interesting to see what happens with both party leaders before the next election. For now - I'm getting so sick of the entire business and all the bickering that's going on. Have you watched "Question Time," lately. I wonder if these people realise that they're being filmed?