Lexi, Lexi, Lexi,

And Juliar has done a stellar job?

What about the BER stuff up, or the biggest carbon tax in the world, or the highest taxes on mining in the world, etc, etc, etc.

Juliar as PM is the biggest insult to all Australians.

free speech: um, tony said what he wanted to say. so do lots of others, how is this very public broadcaste of political views a sign that free speech is being curtailed

Free speech 2: those who whinge about free speech being suppressed are akin to those who whinge about floods after a drought

Hi CSteele,

Well, I hope nobody ever burns the Aboriginal Flag: I think that would deserve some time inside. The Flag is a thing of beauty, and I hope that one day it is incorporated into the Australian flag, perhaps as it is or perhaps in the dominant top-left-hand corner of the current one.

Of course that would take another Referendum. Slowly, slowly .....

Rainier's whinge about whingeing has brightened my day ! Keep sitting there, brother/sister, that might work !

Cheers,

Joe

Dear SM,

No one is saying that any politician has done a
stellar job recently. But you're the one who only
points the finger at the government when the Opposition
has little to feel smug about - hence my responses to
you. For as long as you keep it up - I shall continue
to respond. Game set and match.

Lexi,

There are sufficient lefties here to make outrageous unsupported claims about Abbott and the coalition that any of my misgivings seem trivial.

While certainly Abbott committed more than a few gaffes, the policy and his game play of the political situation hasn't given Gillard any oxygen at any point and has played specifically to labor's weaknesses. Labor's response has foolishly been to try and beat him on his home ground, and the continuous character assassination has made him the bogey man of non liberal voters (but still with an approval rating higher than Turnbull ever achieved) but actually kept continually him in the public focus.

If Labor had ignored him, they would have done far better.

Keeping Rudd continually in the picture has also been a successful coalition strategy, and he would be nowhere without the coalition's focus. This has continually sapped Gillard's authority.

As for Abbott's performance as PM, it has yet to be tested, and the negative ratings by the lefties are by definition just speculation. In the last 12 months, Abbott has kept his head down and controlled his mouth, and is looking stronger every day.