individual,

It's a bit rich to blame everything that happened in "the last twenty years" soley on the ALP - and what party was it again that made savage cut-backs to education, abolished all the Keating training schemes and hiked up HECS fees? Who introduced the biggest regressive tax hike in our history and remains the highest taxing party we have ever had? Who plundered the public purse and sold off most of our assets so they could use the cash to buy middle-class votes and reward their owners? Who went against all agreed convention and played the race card just to hang onto power? Who got us into two unwinnable and rather expensive wars?

Not everybody saw those mean-and-tricky years as a golden age and a lot of people had been badly hurt - as the subsequent election results later proved.

I said I wasn't a diehard Labor supporter but I simply don't think the LNP are capable of making the necessary changes we need now to prepare us for the years ahead. They are good at doing nothing unless they really have to and historically it's always been the ALP that makes all the big changes.

As for "union control", what groups do you think is behind the Libs? Abbott is only their PR front man and they are not so squeaky clean as you seem to think. His power base is the same one that got rid of Brogden and they control most of NSW.

Look at what's happened with incoming Liberal governments in NSW, QLD and Victoria and just imagine what's in store for us nationally.

Something like what?
Poirot, I did point that out quite clearly.

wobbles,
it is definitely not rich to blame Labor for just about all that's gone wrong, because they did & continue to ruin all we work for.
Those savage cut backs to education were cut backs to waste. There was no evidence that any of that funding ever made into educating. Health is the same. Law & Order are non existent to a large extent. ALL thanks to Labor. There is nothing you can state that will convince the sober thinker of Labor being nothing but a mob of incompetent suckers on our tax dollars.
I experience this incompetence on a blatant scale on a daily basis. If you can't see that then all I can put that down to is ignorance, after isn't ignorance supposed to be bliss ?

Abbott says getting rid of the carbon tax is the way to lower power prices. 10% will not do much in lowering power prices that have risen 50%
When asked if he had a plan for the rest of the increases he could not answer.
No policies, no ideas, no political nous.

When asked if he had a plan.
579,
In all probability he was asked by a Labor crony so I'd be tempted not to bother answering because why waste the time when no explanation is the best explanation.