Bonmot haveing read the links I have always known point one to be true.
Have not delved in to the climate change one yet just skipped over it.
But while willing to say both sides lie I think action is called for.
Poirot, not able to agree with your whole view.
First my though on education is not about if higher or just primary.
I think in terms of no education or wrong education.
Education for over half the worlds poorest is very minimal, in some cases trapping as sure as any prisoner them in the middle ages.
You can if you look, often tell a conservative just by looking, try it its fun.
Not the overly fat real estate agents but the women and men on the street.
Now what is so bad about mining tax, planned disability fix?, saying sorry, carbon tax.
A great deal of change, true change has been achieved, in a difficult time.
I am truly honestly sorry, but in getting that done, while in the clutches of Doctor No, and your Greens,Labor has done well.
Bonmot in truth the nearest a government will ever get to perfection is a centrist one.
I want my party, believe my party will return to that position.
Conservatisms, once Liberals, once had that dream.

One of Bonmot links showed us that some Americans [Republican Tea Party] think the President is not American.
Small matter? no big one so very stupid but in a country known to increasingly be hearing such tripe.
Not just there here and every place research has found some of us are born to be Conservatives,Liberals, Labor or what ever.
And that it is unlikely we will be other.
Yet history tells us some do change, look at Big Mal of the lost trousers, did he change as well as his party racing to the right, I think yes to both.
As almost all of us ask how did politics fall this low,and blind our selves to the fact we let it, can belief in our party and only our party blind us to truth.
For far too many yes!
If some how we could here a private conversation between Sir Robert Menzies the founder of Liberal Party, and John Howard, two men like it or not who held the electorate in their hands.
And both I would fight till the death still, but with a respect for both.
And the subject, in private was Tony Abbott, I think the mans true nature would be sadly reflected on by both,to put it mildly, both would not let him clean their boots.

Question time was interesting today, 3 opposition one government member sent to the sin bin.
Just maybe this bloke, not a fan, is not going to be a push over.
Government Ministers sat down, not for the first time.
Noted from his first day in the chair a few Government Ministers, including she who must be obeyed, keep talking after being asked to stop.
May see some in the sin bin.
Sorry but Abbott as is his usual asked or had asked, questions that went no place.
Hockey,once one issue away from the Job Abbott has, is as far away from it now as I am.
Honestly, truly, this Abbott front bench is not much more than squawking sea gulls fighting over a chip that has been eaten by one long gone.

All the opposition is interested in is any bits of dirt laying around. They do not have anything that benefits Australia as a whole.
You could almost say question time was being treated in a way, that the time is wasted by the opposition.
Questions from school kids could be better directed.
Big Joe's question, received a verbal bashing, but he was satisfied.
Abbott with his twisted ideas, and ragged bunch of would-be ministers, don't seem to have any conscience.

579 a worth while read in a feature story in todays Sydney morning Herald.
It with some basis makes the claim both sides are betraying us, self interest before Nation.
I have much more to say about Conservatives and Republican clones.
But would like to spotlight again a reason we are in such trouble.
Greens followers, I TRULY AM SORRY.
My intention is not to hurt your team, just tell it as I see it.
Bob Browns team are looking like stopping a basic tax reform of the mining tax.
Here, in that move, is a small rock, under a big one, threatening the stability of the whole.
That rock, could, maybe should, rock its way over the edge and bring down a plan and a government.
That little rock, not Representative of public opinion is about to side with Conservatives to block a basic.
In doing so it helps Conservatives, adds to public perceptions it is controlling and, turn more against Labor.
I am afraid of the future, short term, but know Labor will not be out of office long.
Conservatives are a water color add written on the thinest rice paper, about to be rained on.
But to ensure that? greens should not be considered other than assistants to Conservatives.
Yes confronting stuff.
But look deeper with no greens we would have stable government and maybe no hung Parliament.

Most mature Australians both young and old, support Abbott for one good reason.
He will restore the budget to surplus,get the unemployed jobs by stimulation ,rather than,labor's job creation of public service stargazers.
Good on ya Abbott.