Dear Poirot,

This joke may lighten things up a bit:

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are sitting next to each other on a flight from Sydney to Canberra. Tony leans over to Julia and asks if she would like to play a game. Julia just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and turns towards the window to catch a few winks.

Tony persists and says that the game is really easy and a lot of fun.
He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and visa-versa." Again, Julia politely declines and tries to get some sleep.

Tony, now somewhat agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer I will pay you
$50!"

This catches Julia's attention. She also knows from her experiences with Tony in Parliament that there will be no end to this torment unless she plays. So Julia agrees to the game.

Tony asks the first question. "How much is the GST on a loaf of bread?" Julia doesn't say a word, reaches into her wallet, pulls out
$5 and hands it to Tony.

Now it's Julia's turn. She asks Tony, "What hops, carries its young
in its pouch and flies?"

Tony looks at Julia with a puzzled frown. He takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references. He taps into the air phone with his modem and searches the internet and the National Library.
Frustrated, he sends emails to all his pals in the Liberal Party and finally people in the One Nation party. All to no avail.

After over an hour, he wakes up Julia and hands her $50. Julia politely takes the $50 and turns away to get back to sleep.

Tony, who is more than a little miffed, wakes Julia again and asks,
"Well, so what IS the answer?" Without a word, Julia Gillard reaches into her wallet, hands Tony Abbott $5, and goes back to sleep.

Thanks csteele and Lexi,

Perhaps I should try and take more of an interest - I used to be quite a political animal but somewhere along the line of late that area of interest seems to be in lock-down.
I seem to have an aversion to Julia, and the Labor Party at the last election was almost indistinguishable from the Libs....however, Tony Abbott is really a second rate pollie and the fact that he is leader of the opposition is bewildering imo.

Lexi, surely you're not talking about that woman who is prepared to break a promise made to buy the middle of the road voters vote, just to get into the lodge, as someone we can be proud of. She is a disgrace

Poirot I can't stand those dreadful ABC Labor party promotion arm things either. I used to watch nothing but the ABC, but when they could even convert Quantum to a Labor political announcement, I found nothing left worth watching. I don't think your cringe factor is over developed, it appears that a very large percentage of Ozzies find her very cringe worthy.

I almost threw up last night, when she came on my TV, uninvited or announced, on what should have been normal news & was on every channel I switched to to get rid of her. She makes me sick, & ashamed.

Sorry Morgan, I almost forgot you.

Yes I'm well aware you want to shut down the coal industry. Fuzzy thinking as usual. If you join a one world government, do you really think that the rest of the world will let you tie up such a valuable resource? Yes in fact you probably do, you have trouble putting 2 & 2 together after all.

Even if we try to retain our sovereignty, after Obama destroys the USA, you must be mad to think that a couple of very big players are going to go short of the coal, or gas they want, just so some misguided twits in Oz can have a warm fuzzy feeling.

Oh, if you have a moment, would you drop around & tell my Hibiscus about global warming. Please tell them they have not just experienced the coldest few days in their 18 years, & that a hundred or so of them need not die.

While you're at it, my neighbour looks like loosing at least as many of his 26 year old mango trees. Hang on, one of your clowns recently said it would be colder with global warming.

You lot are almost as credible as Julia.

@ Hasbeen:

I know that you're just trolling because it must be getting harder and harder to maintain your AGW denialism, but you're making even less sense than usual. You tried to get some mileage out of Gillard's hypocritical policy of reducing the domestic use of coal, while continuing to push the coal export industry. I pointed out that it is already Greens policy to phase out coal exports.

Now you're back to equating weather with climate. You're no dummy, so what do you achieve by spouting rubbish that you must know by now to be incorrect? Surely your ego isn't that fragile that you can't admit when you're wrong, and then move on.

Thanks Lexi, good to start the day with a chuckle.

Your link did bring back memories but no, that wasn't where Tony Abbott said he would say anything to be PM (although one could be forgiven for thinking so).

Had a quick look this morning and came up with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5ljcri6Nk

I laughed a bit, but had a bigger laugh over this

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2784702.html

It also contains a link to the one above.