Hasbeen not being rude, truly have a soft spot for you.
I have had less than 25 mm in three weeks.
Hope you are doing better.
But boy some of those day lilly,s have stood up and done well.
Soft spot is not my head.
You will not find hope driving my views, gut feellings yes.
Carbon tax has badly damaged Abbott.
Near 12 months and he knows it, he desperately needs an earlier election, no matter how.
Mining tax? nothing? hardly breaking them, and your view is a minority one there.
I question this mob, Gillard? ok but who else?
Labor is outstandingly better than the cry wolf other side.
No leader is assured can be sure of leading at this election, Australia will smile if both fall before it.
Time is Liberals second worst enemy, it will if let run,weaken the party.
Abbott,s right of the middle stance, like him is the other.

I remember back in 2003 Tony Abbott set up what he himself called a "Slush Fund" specifically to get rid of One Nation.

Afterwards he was caught out lying to the ABC, the Sydney Morning Herald and also the Australian Electoral Commission.

This was not when he young and naive, it was while he was a Government Minister.

Financial arrangements of the fund are a mystery and he still refuses to name the financial "donors" and had taken steps to have his name "hidden" in the establishment of the Fund.

When he was caught out his excuse was that "lying to the Public was not as significant as lying in Parliament".

And he now says it all comes down to "character" and "honesty".

Really?

There are also questions to be answered by then-lawyer Julie Bishop and how her partner managed to get hold of criminal files concerning his political rival - files that she could have accessed.

Character indeed!

Hiya rache,

Indeed!

I take it you're referring to this Tony Abbott escapade:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/22/1061529330032.html

Naughty Tony....

Lady's very true but you will not get answers here.
From the first few days after knifing of Rudd a Aussie thing, dislike of women in high places, mixed with my stunned views it should never have happened was on show..
Pure bigotry, took the place of truth.
Current Liberal front bench is puppet like,seems Abbott has a controlling hand in places we shall not talk of.
But this is true, he is fast finding out he has run our of rope, Julie Bishop is not well liked in her own party.
In WA she fought to control a rebellion on wheat,and lost.
Abbott knew his rope was near its end and conned Bishop to front for him, along with Pyne.
Clearly both are nothing but cloths to heap the mud, mop it up after, then be thrown in the rubbish bin.
Their own party is more than willing to discard them.
It is my view,until this final issue, Gillard has shown none of the forcefulness she showed while Minister for Education.
She has grown,and Abbott? merely dropped the many masks he has hidden behind.
We live in interesting times.
Polls out soon will prove my thoughts.
Crying Wolf has terminally crippled the man.
However we must confront TURNBULL.
He will for his own good and his party,s, leave the negativity and its bag carriers behind.
That makes Labors task much harder, but leaves much of our achievements NDIS Education reform Carbon tax health reform intact.
As the states face the true implications of massive Liberal victory's any time spent in opposition will find Labor well placed for the future and better at its job.
Current state scandals are bad but still yesterdays events .
Thanks for the thread SM during its life we saw your team fall on its sword.

A party that refuses to have policy, and now has reneged on child care.
Led by Abbott, is now in a situation of what to do now.
They have had one agenda, and that was to force an election. After much to do and say they have failed, and are left with no policy and no election. Abbott, pyne, a both Bishops, are a frightening sight. The fat boy is rarely heard or seen, there is probably good reason for that.
The libs are now in a position of being irrelevant.
The rot set in after the carbon tax was found to be a fizzer for them. After months of scaremongering and lies about its dramatic effects, to have the whole campaign come crashing down around them.
Of course it was all designed to force an election, before the starting date.
Instead of Slipper resigning from parliament, he moved camp, another downfall.
Thomson was tried ,found guilty and murdered for what, know one knows.
You could say they have not won a round, and now are lost in a vacuum.
The libs have grossly underestimated the strength of a female as leader. Gillard has shown the ferocious ability to with stand the onslaught of Abbott and his team of pit bulls.
Australia under Abbott, would lead us into a nation of poverty stricken people while the one % would flourish.
No one in their right mind, could possably pick a party with no direction, and no idea.

A Walkley Award...for exposing Tony Abbott's "vast vault of mediocrity" (thanks to Jennifer Wilson for that apt phrase), vacuity and deceptive rhetoric:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12--1/walkleys/4402348

And still this man continues to be presented as a viable option to lead this country.....