Diamond Pete I am an ALP member.
And believe me an activist.
I have seen threads such as this start only to blow up in the posters face.
I want a Labor victory.
But to what do you put our gaining in the polls.
Can it be Abbot,s lies, extreme lies and extremely often?
Surely not Gillard?
Truth is the first party to change its totally unwanted leader,unwanted by this country both of them.
Will be unbeatable.
And lead to the other side changing too.

Dream on fellers. The next polls will show this was a hick up, probably manufactured by labor to save Gillard from Rudd. No problem there from me, we could nothing worse than get KRuddy back.

Any of you who can't see the huge financial, & economic hole Gillard is diving into is a bit short sighted, or simply dumb.

A few predictions for you.

Gillard will never win election, or manage to buy one again, like the last one.

Turnbull will never lead the Libs again, & will either fade out, or become Labor leader. Probably the latter. People who could not see through old slim ball Rudd, appear to be unable to see through Turnbull either.

Tony will be PM for many years, & become much loved by any fair minded Ozzies.

Roll on the election.

What frightening predictions Hasbeen!
I will try one of my own.

Abbot will never be PM.

He won't be able to help self-destructing, as his true self becomes more and more apparent to the people.

As for LIberal's chances at the next election, we should always remember that females make up at least half of the eligible voters in this country, and I believe the vast majority don't like Tony at all.

Hi there SUSEONLINE...

You say that Tony A. will probably self-destruct '...as his true self becomes more and more apparent...' to people ?

How so ? To me at least (being a very far-right conservative), he presents as an intelligent, decent sort of bloke, who's married with three girls.

Sure, occasionally he appears uncomfortable with the way he answers questions, deals with the media, even while he's on his feet at the Despatch Box, in Parliament.

Is he an axe murderer, a traitor ? Alternatively, is our PM a lady of similar undesirable traits... a traitor or axe murderer ?

Obviously neither of 'em are. Yet all we seem to ever hear, is just what a dangerous, evil and vile man this gentleman is ?

Perhaps I'm simply too obtuse and dense to recognise these hidden peculiarities or 'qualities' of Tony are ?

Therefore, it's incumbant upon me to sense-out just what a dreadful individual this wannebe PM is ? Certainly before the next federal election, at least.

You never know, I may well be persuaded to cast my humble and futile vote in favour of Ms Gillard or Mr Rudd ?

Or perhaps that cerebral giant, the Hon. Peter Garrett MHR ? Who, I might add possess a rather obscure and unique forte or talent even, of being able to scream in tune !

Oh hello O SUNG WU.

You don't have to look far for Abbotts 'peculiarities' , as far as I am concerned.

Apart from his well known gaffs about women ironing and belonging in a kitchen, and the need to be a good, pure virgin for their man, I don't find his speaking voice and stumbling conversation professional enough for the office of PM.
I would be embarrassed to have such a man represent us overseas.

I don't like how he links his strong Christian beliefs to his politics, for example with his archaic views on abortion and no sex before marriage....for girls only of course.

His petulant dummy spits on camera on several occasions when he didn't like the questions put to him were embarrassing and showed more than a little underlying aggressiveness .

I am far from alone in these thoughts.
I sincerely hope Malcolm Turnbull returns to the helm.
I would then vote Liberal in a heartbeat....

hatred lead many socialist to be more concerned about a man who supposedly threw a phantom punch than they are about woman who slept around with married men with kids and lie. Go figure.