DP you really are out of touch.

2pp =54% Coalition 46% Labor

Juliar's lead over Abbott has fallen and probably will fall further.

Juliar wins the lying prize hands down with the No carbon tax promise.

Lies are a part of current Coalition ideology. Here's the truth as it's NOT told by SM .... Labor/Coalition are 50/50 on the 2 party preferred vote as proven by polling .... http://theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/newspoll-shows-boost-for-julia-gillard-and-alp/story-fn59nilx-1226475234900

Nice try SM, better luck next time.

DP,

I gave you the benefit of the doubt, 'cause I thought you had missed the last polling. However, you then try and defend yourself with polls from 17 Sept. Now I know that you were deliberately lying.

The latest polls: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/polling

Even when the 50/50 polls came out, they were far out from all the others. Juliar is the future ex PM. (in disgrace)

DP you have given a victory to my mate SM he the master of spin needs no own goals.
I like your miss placed optimism but it changes nothing we are not 50/50.
DP this much is true, such is the nature of entrenched anti Gillard, like me but for other reasons, including pure bigotry, she will never win an election.
Sit down consider the alternative, reality in fact.
This awful dysfunctional opposition is going to rule.
Because our party,s owners are putting their face before our impending pain.

Banjo; The Speaker and the GG are in similar elevated position.
They both have to be above derision and be holier than thou.

The GG Kerr was completely correct in dismissing Whitlam for illegal
borrowing but fell from grace by turning up at the Melbourne Cup well
under the weather. There were apparently a number of similar occasions.

It was very poor management of the parliament that the government did
not get Slipper to resign right at the start of the house that day and
then the government would not have had to defeat the "No Confidence"
motion put up by the opposition.

That would have been the best solution all round and for the life of
me I cannot see why that was not done.
I guess that would be Albanese's fault as leader of the house.

Ludwig>> Hold on SM, the strategy of enticing a member of the opposition to become speaker and abandon his party was pretty damn good in the circumstances. You can hardly blame Labor for doing that<<

Luddy, perhaps a slick bit of finagling, but the reason for it came from another Gillard lie. She traded Wilkie’s blind obedience for poker machine reforms…she of course lied to him, so she could not trust him anymore….then she put the slipper in.

No, no talent there, just hypocrisy and conspiracy.

Nothing commendable.