I get great joy from watching Labor unravel in front of my eyes. Juliar and Whine Swan have done the coalition a huge favour. Short of Abbott going out and shooting puppies, the three stooges (Juliar, Whine, And Conjob) have firmly entrenched in Australian memory how incompetent and deceitful government really can be.

I can't see Labor coming back until this country suffers from mass amnesia.

Dear Shadow Minister,

I wonder how many Victorians and Queenslanders would agree
with your take on politics. In any case,
one stint of the Libs under Mr Abbott should have
the country screaming for a change of government. ;)

Hi Lexi,

Labor 30 %, Coalition 47 %. More than 50 % more support for the Coalition than for Labor.

But who cares about polls ? The only one that matters in the one on September 14th.

At Yom Kippur. (Imagine holding an election on Christmas Day - who dreamt that up ?)

No worries - as long as Craig Thomson holds his seat, Labour has a chance.

As long as Oakeshott and Windser hold their seats, Labour has a chance.

If Labor can take back Adam Bandt's seat, it may have a chance to govern, at least a bit more, in its own right. Especially if it can sweet-talk Wilkie again. That's if he holds his seat.

As long as it doesn't lose a single seat in Western Sydney, or in Western Australia, or Queensland, it has a chance.

Should be a doddle.

Now all we have to do is wait for the next thirty weeks - so far, during this past three weeks or so, one Labor MP has been arrested, two others have resigned, a Corruption Commission is questionng Labor State ministers, and the polls have slumped 5 % for labor.

Relax, folks, we're barely 10 % into the campaign :) 90 % to go. Surely nothing much else can go wrong ?

Cheers,

Joe

one stint of the Libs under Mr Abbott should have the country screaming for a change of government. ;)
Lexi,
Only the integrity devoid self-centred me, me, me sector coming in from the left.
Those who vote for Abbott & the Coalition so with the full knowledge that the belts need tightening. They do so for the interest of Australia not just the non-producing.
They do so for getting Australia out of the economic & social depression we've been in since Rudd. The Coalition knows there's more to running a Country than just selling out the workers & rewarding the hangers-on.

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

I am very concerned about this country's future
should there be a change in government. I am concerned
because to date there's been an absence of any policy,
reform agenda, or vision from the Coalition. All I've
seen to date have been scare tactics but nothing of any
substance.

I find it difficult to believe that voters could be so
gullible as to fall for such manipulative behaviour.
Perhaps voting should be based on an IQ test?

Lexi, surely you know that oppositions NEVER release their policies
until close to the election. The Labour Party has always done that.
Don't you remember John Howard or Peter Costello berating Labour for
having no policies ?

They do not do it early so that the government cannot copy any of their
policies and the normal sequence is the government makes its policy
statement first and the opposition follows the next week.
It has always been like that.
They are just going on about no policies to stir up the ignorant voters. Don't fall for it.

Another reason I believe is something to do with access to Treasury
and other departments not being available until writs are issued.
So lets not hear any more about no policies.

The one about the dams in Qld & NSW, well that has been on the maps
for as long as I can remember. There has been a lot of waffle about
them. Some are visualising 100 Warragamba dams. In reality they are
largely intended to be just large weirs, at least that was what was
suggested many years go.

I am starting to realise that almost all the infrastructure and
projects both parties are proposing will come to a grinding halt in
a very few years, maybe well before 2018.