Dear Belly,

Don 't worry about anyone taunting
me. Only those whose opinions I value would
be able to have a detrimental effect on me.
As for Shadow Minister - I can't take him
seriously any more. He's distinguished for
ignorance, and he's trying to save both his
faces.

Dear Belly,

I forgot to add in my last post that I feel
the PM's performance at her press conference
(confident and forthright) marks a turning
point for her and her government. Voters
may be seeing her in a different light.

Tony Abbott
just may be revealed as a PM in waiting, who's
got very little to offer and he can't maintain
his negativity through to the next election. I
also suspect that Mr Abbott's lack of policy
alternatives could come under closer scrutiny.

Scattergun tactics as I've stated previously
have to stop working eventually.

Good morning Lexi I understand your thoughts and wish I could share them.
Some I do, she is performing better, much better.
But you will not I said I fear her rise,and know/think it can never lead to a victory while she leads.
Lexi this story is one of about 500.000, it truly is, a local stopped me and said, *are you aware Belly your mob has put the cost of a crematorium service up by $2.000 dollars*
He went on to assure me an ex habitant of our village who owns one crematorium, told him so! carbon tax!
Such people vote.
Men, grown adults, I once served as union official, tell me no way they can ever vote for Gillard.
Lexi after I list Abbott's untruths, and ask what list exists for her, they can not name more than the one you know, such people vote.
Gillard CAN NEVER WIN , Abbott can not survive, how will we go against Turnbull?
If you are a gardener do you keep trying to get a faulty plant going, or plant a faster growing one and cut it down.
Can Gillard ever leave her problems behind, to think she can is to insult,sometimes rightly, the intelligence of voters.

The reason that Labor was struggling was because it had a raft of bad policies. Last week they buried their on shore processing policy, their east timor policy, their Malaysian policy, and started with the coalition's pacific solution.

Their latest backflip on the carbon tax will help too. (even if it removes any chance of a budget surplus.)

That Labor lied to the electorate is however, a stain that can't be washed out.

Dear Belly,

You have only to look at what's happening currently
in Queensland, NSW, and Victoria - to see how
disgruntled people are after having voted for the
Libs. People are now really feeling the pain. They
never learn from past experiences of Liberal governments
and they fall for their spin of false promises and
forget about all the cuts in essentials and basics
that ordinary families need. If Mr Abbott gets to be
PM - its going to be even worse because all states
depend on federal government funding for their
individual state programs. If the states are cutting
back their spending and the federal fovernment cuts
back its spending - it will hurt twice as much.

People who are worried about the carbon tax in Victoria
the state government is going to introduce a tax on
each household and business for the fire-fighting
fund of $100 for households and $200 for businesses
plus a percentage valuation of the property payable
through the individual municipal rates.

And how are pensioners, small businesses, and the
unemployed and others going to cope with that?

Julia Gillard's performance at her press conference marks
a turning point for her and her government. Her problem has
been not so much that voters are no longer listening to
her (as journalists sagely observe, ad infinitum), but
that they wanted to punish her for her perceived failings.
However, perhaps they will eventually learn that she is
worthy of redemption and their support when compared with
what will happen under an Abbott government that will
hurt everyone (except the rich) severely. Mr Abbott is
everything that most Australians are not. He should be
totally beatable at the next election.

Hi Lexi,

I think we may find that Mr Abbott's vacuous performance on the 7:30 Report marks a turning point in perceptions. That interview with Leigh Sales could have been an opportunity to decisively stamp his credentials as a future leader. That he was so obviously bereft of substance, and so smugly reticent to shift from script, exposed him as the great pretender he is.