Lexi,
You really are a Labor tragic. You will not acknowledge the stuff ups Labor has made. You are trying to blame the media and Opposition for Labors uneptitude.

Do you actually want to start a list of Labor lies to go hand in hand with Labor stuff ups.

OK, here is a few and others might like to add to the list.

1. Both Rudd and Gillard promised to stop the boats.

2. Gillard lied to Wilkie about the pokies.

3 Gillard lied about the carbon Tax.

4. Rudd promised a $6 billion plan to fix the homeless-- nothing.

5. Promised time and time again there would be a surplus-$20 billion deficit.

6. Promised tax cuts- failed to deliver.

7. In 2010 Gillard promised $2.2 billion to build 16 mental health facilities-- Nothing.

8. Promised hospital reform--nothing

9. Promised PCs for schools. Half delivered

10. Promised to cut 'red tape' 12835 new regulations/58 repealed

11.Promised 260 child care centres--38 delivered

12. Promised 64 super GP clinics--11 delivered.

13. Promised 2650 Trade training centres--70 delivered

14. Promised Rudd Bank--nothing.

Anyone want to add the promises missed. Was not there something about promised aboriginal housing not being done?

Hi there BELLY old friend...

Many thanks for your vote of support, I certainly appreciate it, believe me. Similarly, don't get yourself down too much either, on the state of your beloved Labor Party, BELLY.

The upcoming election may well clean out those within who've done your Party the most harm over the ensuring four or five years. I don't know ? Maybe you're in the best position to identify Labor's most culpable political transgressors ? Those of them who manage to orchestrate matters behind the scenes ? Perhaps it's they alone who are the most deserving, of the Party's severe censure ?

Though, I always believe in the old dictum, 'it takes two hands to clap'. I don't believe any one individual, in the parliamentary Labor Party, is solely to blame for any electoral loss. Most of it can be apportioned squarely at the feet of these 'faceless' men and women, who pull the strings, we so often hear about ?

Still, it's not for you to worry over BELLY. If anything they've betrayed you and your cohorts completely. You've given them your loyalty and valued support. And in return they've 'sold out' you and their other faithful members, for no other reason but to advance their OWN personal grip on power ! They're so corrupt, they simply can't even recognise it ? They've got this cockeyed view, they are there to rule in perpetuity, such is the level of their hubris, it's stunning ! Though in reality, it's all so very sad ?

Go quietly there ol' son. As I said earlier, it's not for you or your other loyal cohorts to agonize over, or to blame. I reckon you know precisely where the blame lies ?

Banjo, there are also the elections where significant portions of the campaign were based around claims that the Libs would increase the GST (including the original one when Hewson took it to the polls). Fear campaigns based on Howard handing over to Costello etc.

I'm no fan of the opposition as it now stands but the attempt to lay the blame for negative oppositions pretty much entirely with the current coalition opposition is somewhat staggering in it's one sidedness.

Lies and fear mongering have unfortunately been potent tools in Australian politics for too long. The suggestion that's primarily about the Abbott lead opposition is somewhat amazing.

R0bert

When its all said and done, the concept of honor is totally foreign to both the ALP and the LNP. Both leadership & normal members alike regard survival of their party as infinitely more important than principles with the ALP 'possibly' slightly worse in that respect because of the more obvious influence of the various pressure groups within and without. History has shown that even a long period in the wilderness or a shattering defeat only has a short-term effect, a few years later we are back to exactly the self same rabble. One would have hoped the Queensland LNP would have learned from the lessons of history but the antics of Newman / Seeney / Nicholls suggest otherwise. Likewise it would be reaonable to expect the red-headed witch &b the dying duck to have learned from previous ALP disasters but again, such is not the case. I really don't know what is required to convince these turkeys to behave. I guess there is at least some reason for the Newman / Seeney / Nicholls arrogance, after all they started with probably the biggest majority in recorded history and as such viewed themselves as completely invincible. The red-headed witch however has not only a tenuous majority but also a less than completely compliant senate, so I'd expect her to be on the ball. Obviously the untold arrogance of bloodsucking parasites generally blinds them to their mistakes. Ultimately I see the real responsibility for this state of affairs belongs to the supremely apathetic sheeple who have chosen not to demand accountability.

Praxidice – You say

“I guess there is at least some reason for the Newman / Seeney / Nicholls arrogance, after all they started with probably the biggest majority in recorded history and as such viewed themselves as completely invincible.”

The reality is they got less than 50% of the vote

A system similar to the federal one delivered 88% of the seats to a party with less than 50% of the vote. A proportional system would have Labour 24, LNP 44, Greens 7, KAP 10, Others 4 seats.

We need to fix the system.

Not sure if it is server fault but had to sign in mid post yesterday, then again today.
Lexi,if only, if only I was not a 24/7 walking politician!
I see about a thousand every weekend market day, they see my always on ALP shirt.
And long ago, working class people have left Gillard.
Yet you are quite right! as sure as we are history your thoughts on its view of this government, along with my own, will become the future view [ both great actions and awful ones]
Without reform there will be no ALP.
Carbon reduction, watch it become Liberal policy to truly reduce carbon, it will happen.
Abbott, by his every action, is all the evidence we need, to prove against such Labor is in the hearts of voters STILL GONE.
Those responsible for my living night mare will emerge from their rats nests when it is too late, and reforms major reforms, will transform Labor.
But how do we get those we,all over Australia, let down back?
Frank honesty is better than that filthy word solidarity, it in any dictionary should get its new meaning printed, *To hide the filth*
EG *IGNORING WRONG BECAUSE HE IS ONE OF US*
PS national booth wanted to hang me! coasts biggest market, and enjoyed walking past often, I was one of the few who knew they had a booth, Oakshot is the target.