Abbott is as erratic and inconsistent in his statements as was Turnbull with his lack of judgement.

Turnbull had his Godwin Grech moment. Abbott will be back-pedalling like crazy soon to get away from his "hero" Kathy Jackson when the full story finally breaks and he's shown as the hypocrite he is.

Should be hilarious when it finally happens.

Belly,

You can do better than a simple ill tempered spew. I know Abbott humiliating labor gets under your skin, but simply venting unsubstantiated bile just makes you look like some of the religious nutters on OLO.

Lexi, that speech to congress in early 2011 was very "brave" to promise a carbon price, when in 2010 before the election, she promised the electorate exactly the opposite. Eloquent spin does not cover her heinous lie. The electorate will not forget nor forgive.

ok shadow minister quite true, I can do better.
Haveing looked at the contributions after my last I thought why swim in that pond?
But your words are at least ones that invite debate, and come from an IQ in double figures.
So here it is, Tony Abbott, every bit as bad as my first post.
Will not lead his party in to a federal election.
I doubt Gillard will too.
Your party, for some time after replacing him, will be trying to get the very taste of him out of their mouths, memory's out of all our minds.
My little Foxys could offer advice about the taste but best not.

Dear Shadow Minister,

As you know things in politics can change in a flash.
What is promised one minute - changes with circumstances
in the next. As Mr Howard explained regarding "core"
and "non-core" promises. What the PM was faced with prior
to the election was one set of circumstances - when a
minority government was formed after the election -
things had to be negotiated. Circumstances had changed.
Mr Abbott would have had to deal with the same situation
had he been able to form a minority government.

How to get on top of Australian politics - as
one satirist pointed out:

The law of obfuscation or "that wasn't what I said."
All political statements whether by government or
opposition, must be worded so that the opposite
meaning can be extracted from them. The hidden agenda
os such a simple statement as "we shall abolish the
carbon tax," reads as follows:
We shall abolish the carbon tax some time in the future
subject to the state of the economy, if the Senate lets
us. If we haven't got more important things to do,
if it suits the vested interests and if there is no more
important measures necessary to win the next election.

Dear runner,

There's no shortage of good news about the
Australian economy. As the Governor of the
Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens tells us:

Australia's real GDP has outpaced every other
major industrialised nation: Canada, New Zealand,
the Euro zone, the US, the UK, and Japan.
Our household wealth is rising. Our unemployment
rate is low and so is inlfation.

But hey, some people prefer spin to facts - and
simply don't want to believe that the government
has done things right.

Some people prefer scattergun tactics,
sound bites, and slogans instead of economic
competence. To each his own.

Lexi as I said elsewhere, the GDP you are sprouting about includes
turnover in the mining industry.
Note, turnover, not profit !
The mining industry sees its profit overseas, not in Australia.
So the GDP is largly made up of costs not profits.
You cannot spend costs.
The "real" GDP must be around 1%. Not 4.5% !

Our fuel costs are around 3%, so we are in real trouble.
Wake up Lexi unless you are just not a Labour Party computer in a dungeon somewhere in Canberra.