All tactics have spectacularly failed to date, and there is a shift underway to stabilize the sitting govt; and get on with day to day supervision of the nations economy.
The world has had five years of turmoil now, but AU remains in a stable situation , with world pressures against us at every turn, the sitting govt; has shown great courage in preserving our nations interests , and keeping our workers employed to the best we can.
Boat people have been an issue for some that , disregard this nation was built on boat people. But somehow those people are now pure breeds, and newcomers are mongrels. The govt put up a plan that was crucial to need coalition backing to pass senate, this was denied and a plan that made cense went begging.
The alternate was a tried system some years earlier which had limited success, but since then more wars and millions of people around the world are on the move. Australia gets a small fraction of those displaced people arriving by boat. The previously tried system was again employed ,but as is the case, the goal posts have moved, and success is not coming.
The coalition says it will turn boats around, etc; it seems as though anything that comes to Mr Abbotts head is said without thought.
The coalition at the moment have their problems, as yet we see no policy, we see no politics, all we see is a political party , intent on , returning to a past era that somehow is looked upon as the golden years, all very well if we could turn back time , disregarding the work choices, and several other adverse policies. The fact is it is impossible to turn back time , we don’t have the leader of the day for a start. We have Abbott, what a character, shoots from the hip, continually puts his foot in his mouth, reluctant to read documents, policy free, and has no idea.

.....All tactics have spectacularly failed to date, and there is a shift underway to stabilize the sitting govt; and get on with day to day supervision of the nations economy.

And it's only taken over two years and billions of dollars,most of which has been borrowed and wasted.

But I gues this statement means you do realize just how poorly this government has been running the country, as apart from the barrage from those on the other side, we have also had a PM who has been sleeping with one eye open, fearing for, or fighting to retain her job.

Nice one 579..

Butch old boy, what are you on about now. Two years and billions of dollars.
How about explaining what you mean so we can help you out with some explanations. You leave abstract comments, which are hard to follow.

579>> All tactics have spectacularly failed to date, and there is a shift underway to stabilize the sitting govt; and get on with day to day supervision of the nations economy.
The world has had five years of turmoil now, but AU remains in a stable situation , with world pressures against us at every turn, the sitting govt; has shown great courage in preserving our nations interests , and keeping our workers employed to the best we can.<<

579, are you getting this from a book?...shift underway….stabilize the sitting government….supervision of the nation’s economy…five years of turmoil…...world pressures against us…..keeping our workers employed……..

Howard handed Kev a $20 BILLION surplus in December 2007. Lehman Bros collapsed in September 2008.

Kev had blown that $20 BILLION at that point, in eight short months, he then borrowed for the stimulus packages that we certainly had no need for.

579 I will put the GFC in a nutshell for you……, you obviously need a factual explanation.

The Northern hemisphere loaned money to a vast majority of people with no collateral and no real means of paying it back. The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, and the markets plummeted from there. Are you following?

Up north, banks failed and governments had to financially bail them out.

In Australia no banks failed because we did not do subprime loans, less than 1% of Australian mortgages were subprime. The only thing that Kev had to do was guarantee the savings of the plebs, which he did, and our banks never had to take a cent in government funding, so how were we doing it tough? Have a peek at our GDP for 2007 to 2010…..not even a glitch….we had the mines.

The GFC was perfect for Labor, they could borrow and mismanage at will, and it was always the GFC boogie mans fault.

Sorry to have left you behind 579, I will try to explain.

You said, a shift is under way to stabilize the sitting government, which, by definition means it has been unstable.

In fact, it's been unstable ever since K Rudd was chopped at the knees, although given enough time I have no doubt he would have achieved the same disgraceful train wreck Julia has resided over.

And don't forget, the illegals debacle is Kevs baby.

Something back to what you said, it just shows that our economy has been on auto pilot a d the only real achievement labor have achieved is a record of failed attempts and massive debt, the likes we have never seen before.

I just hope we never get into what you consider as ' poor shape'.

Have you ever been in conversation with a stranger then realized you are in over your head.
I have, was talking to a University Professor, he picked the subject I followed.
Some times well behind.
I stopped him, told him I was wrapped in his words but knew about a tenth of one percent of what he knew.
He continued, at my lever and we parted as friends.
Still are, he a Liberal me a Labor lefty smart alec.
No not really.
His says openly real change comes via Labor.
The clean up comes from LIBERALS.
I like to think middle Australia thinks like that.
post Gillard, after Abbott, we will be.