According to previous Liberal and partisan media allegations -

Bob Hawke was a heroin user.
Keating was involved in corrupt business practices and was a closet homosexual.
Latham appeared in a video "cavoting with strippers" at a bucks show.
Rudd corruptly acceped a ute for personal use from a businessman in exchange for financial advantage.

All these things were given screeching headlines, lots of media coverage and were all found to be bogus inventions.

Despite allegations of impropriety about the conservatives (and there have been many) none seem to get the same media attention.

Like the US Tea Party who insist that Obama is a Muslim and was not born on US soil, no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever change their minds and that is the same strategy of smear in use by the conservatives here.

It disconnects the public from debating real issues of policy by creating a phoney "good versus evil" scenario.

That's a strategy adopted by a morally bankrupt group of individuals and their lackeys who will do or say anything to reclaim what they traditionally see is their rightful place running the country.

Now they have chosen to take that path so deliberately over the last few years it would only be fair for them to endure the same amount of personal scrutiny when the circumstances change.

They have made the new rules and have chosen to "live by the sword".

What a shame for us all.

There used to be a saying in some media circles - "Is it true or did you read it in the Oz?"
Back in the days of The Daily Mirror the byline -" from our Washington Correspondent" actually meant "from the Pentagon media section".
The Australian is just a liberal party brochure.
I once tried to use The Australian as toilet paper but ended up with more crap than I started with.

Rache and wobbles,

The only problem with your diatribe against the Australian, is that everything they published was true, and has been admitted as so by Juliar.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Only when you stop spouting lies,
false claims, innuendos, and the Liberal Party
propoganda will you have the right to give
any advice to others as to how they should
behave. In the meantime - no one can really take
anything you say seriously. Putting it politely -
Your credibility, like that of your leader's is
vanishing fast.

Everything published was true, It was made up by the noalition, to be published in their personal paper.
Kaniving scoundrels, and Ned Kelly was branded a crook, he was a gentleman compared to this supposed opposition.
Three years and not one Question on the economy.
Abbott is that busy chasing slime, he can't even read a script that he was being interviewed about.
This is not a future leader,

Lexi,

You cannot point out where I have lied. I have always provided facts and my opinions.

You however have a propensity to spout the labor line, all their lies and a few new ones too. You have no right to give advice until you learn to tell the truth. (unless you simply don't recognize it)

Particularly telling was your strident defense of the Malaysian solution even though you knew it was more inhuman than anything the coalition had ever been accused of.