Phillip S, ain't that the truth. Juliar lies, lies and lies. We need a "real" man at the helm. At least the coalition tells it straight and can be trusted to save Australia from doom. All Labor does is throw insults and endorse criminals as politicians, and they've almost destroyed Australia. Our budget is wrecked, our debt is crippling us, single mothers and the unemployed are still rorting the system, the books are likely cooked like Abbott suspects. What a mess. Bring on the election.

I wonder if she knew this was going down.

Suspended Labor MP Craig Thomson facing 150 fraud charges

INDEPENDENT MP Craig Thomson has been bailed on fraud charges on condition he doesn't attempt to contact any person he allegedly sought sexual services from.

http://www.news.com.au/national/craig-thomson-arrested-by-police/story-fncynjr2-1226565909723

I need to be honest here, and I hope, better informed than some.
During this election campaign I do not intend to white wash the ALP/Union movements.
After all who would know how to get our hands on that much white wash.
My stated views will not change, todays charging of Thomson is bleak, it has convinced me he has much to hide.
Labor has one chance ,just one, to pull off a win against the odds,it is.
Tony Abbott.
He, no one else, can win it for Labor.
Nameing the election date, this far out, will change nothing.
IF the result I expect, note NSW filth and HSU dirt bags, will be headlines till after the election.
Know too, even if it hurts, we are going to get a Campbell Newman style leader.
A quote, nearly sure it was him, while removing the internals of this PC to get back on line I heard these words.
After inspecting the floods.
* this is not the time to get involved in a POLITICALLY CORRECT DEBATE*?
ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
I question any politician using that debate to compare it to PC in any way.
And in fact as NSW has in the last 6 year s seen our north coast flood many times we should at least ask IS IT RELATED.
Dreams are n8ice but can turn to night mares my party should not think voters are silly, no attempt to win an election that does not include reform and commitment never again, can work.
We however are electing a far from good government, in just fleeing to Liberals T0O GET AWAY FROM GILLARD

I see the smirk being wiped off the slimy independants Oakshott and Windsor who pooped on their electorate to be in partnership with this open and accountable Government. How proud they must be to allow their hatred to help ruin the country.

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We however are electing a far from good government, in just fleeing to Liberals T0O GET AWAY FROM GILLARD
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You would compare this:

Abbott graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Economics (BEc). Then he became a Rhodes
Scholar at Queens College Oxford UK in Politics and Philosophy. He also
won a boxing blue at Oxford. He married Margaret in 1987 and has three daughters. He is a member of the congregation of the Catholic Church.

He was involved in student politics, but beyond that, biographer Michael Duffy, wrote that during his student days he “........saved a child who was swept out to sea. Another time, he helped save children from a burning house next to a pub where he was drinking. On each occasion he disappeared before he could be properly thanked”.

He is a member of Manly’s Queenscliffe SLSC, and a member of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, both of which he joined before it was politically expedient to do so. He spent several weeks teaching in remote Aboriginal settlements in Cape York in an effort ‘to familiarise himself with indigenous issues’.

If you are wondering where some of the negativity attributed to Tony Abbott comes from, go on to the Net and have a look at the comments which followed, 2 years ago, when he was asked by the Women’s Weekly

“What advice would you give your three daughters on sex before marriage?”

He told the magazine: I would say to my daughters, if they were to ask me this question =85it is the greatest gift you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don’t give it up to someone lightly.”

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Yet, if you were to read many of the comments on the Internet and the print media at the time, you could be forgiven for thinking he was attempting to impose his will on all females in Australia, had ranted against women, had argued for Muslim like chastity, and so on................... See for
yourself - Google it! Gillard’s response was to accuse Abbott of “lecturing women”??

I have also included a video of Abbott where he commented on, in what seems to me to be quite a balanced fashion, “climate change” yet the title of the video suggests he has been extreme in “denying climate change and advocating carbon tax”.

Abbott has had a history of being told by ‘ABC types’ that he lacks compassion, does not understand homosexuality or homosexuals, avoids situations where he might need to face up to gay relationships, and so on.
Again, because he was not prepared to reveal personal issues of others (ethics, principles,?), he did not speak about his own sister’s lesbian relationship and the part he played in supporting her. It would have been an easy defence for him, but in line with his principles and values, he chose not to use it.
Granted, he is not a super smooth, off the cuff, speaker, and does not fit the orator mould. But when he is compared to the glib tongues and untrustworthiness of Gillard, Rudd, Swan, etc., it is not difficult to determine which attributes are more important for the leadership of Australia.

After Abbott completed his studies, he became a journalist for The Bulletin and also the Australian. For a time he was plant manager for Pioneer Concrete, then became press secretary for the then Opposition Leader, Dr John Hewson. He was elected to Parliament in 1994 at a bi-election. He has held various Ministerial posts and his actions in those roles are a matter of public record. His work ethic is unquestioned.

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