Luciferase, I agree with all that, but the Coalition did not ruin an economy in 5 years. Batards the Libs and the gutless Nationals are, they are competent managers of the economy. The lot that Abbott comes from repaid a $90 Billion Hawke/ Keating debt leaving $20 Billion in the bank for Kev, who spent it in his first year.

Get real Luciferase, not ideological, they are crap..

It is just the Greens protest party hunting headlines.

There is a lot the Greens should be held accountable for. But will the ABC or others ever do it?

Good to see the loveable Gina Rinehart has friends on the forum, possibly fellow billionaires. I wonder if these friends are prepared to sell Australia short, so Rinehart and co can reap super profits from resources which after all belong to the people. Even the arch conservative Paul Howes recognises that.
The Greens do not have a "problem" with mining, per say, providing it is undertaken in an appropriate manner with due regard to people and the environment. Call us a protest party, yes we are, we will protest every time our fellow man is treated unfairly. Today thanks to the Labor Party, all of use, excluding a few mining billionaires, are being ripped off. The mining tax was supposedly going to allow the ordinary Australian to share in the benefits of the countries resources boom. Unfortunately the conservatives within Labor got into bed with the big three miners and stitched up a deal which see's these billionaires selling off the farm to their total benefit. Could one expect anything less from a party that allows a government minister to stitch up deals that gives million of dollars to party cronies.
Abbott and his mod will go a step further, making sure the Gina Rinehart's of this world get even richer than Labor would allow, at the expense of the ordinary Australian. Perhaps Tony will benefit to, Gina might give him a ride in her personal jet, as good old Barnaby Joyce and Julie Bishop got. Now we can all sleep soundly in the knowledge that the Coalition in government will be, if nothing else, the lap dogs of the mining billionaires.

I agree with Julia Gillard on this one.
The Greens are largely a "protest party".
Labor, and EVERYONE, would better off without them.

Vote Liberal ONE.
Vote Labor ONE.
But-- always-- put the Greens LAST!

Please do that SPQR;
Vote Liberal ONE.
Vote Labor ONE.
But-- always-- put the Greens LAST!
Another invalid vote.
Just a thought for SPQR and others. After September 14th. I would like you to look skywards, from your hovels (well your house compared to Gina's). And by chance you may see a tiny silver speck, way up in the sky, it may well be a jet plane with Gina at the controls, and as they wave happily at you peasants below, the occupants of Gina's jet, Tony, Barnaby, Julia and co will drop a dirty big lump of iron ore smack bang, and crash right on top of your hovels. A pleasant thought because the rock will be personally autographed by Gina with the touching message "YOUR SHARE OF THE MINING BOOM."

Come the election, if you do not fully under stand the preferential voting system, most do not.
Vote first preference as you wish, but put the greens last, of you may end up voting for them.
When will we get the right to have one vote one value.
Our Senate is a joke, all upper houses are, we by voting party lines put true dills in the place.
And some do not know how they helped.