Dear Belly,

Regardless of how we feel about the pollies personally
I guess we'll have to wait and see how history judges
them, and whether they will judge them imparitally.
The truth is never as simple as it seems and as I've
stated previously, invariably the way we colour the
world will be from our own agendas, our own unique view.
And that is rarely black and white.

Australians' interests are far more complex than those
who insist on seeing all discussions through a fixed
ideological viewfinder. We're remarkably diverse.
We have voters of all persuasions, city and country folk,
very young and very old, straight, gay, and everything
else.

It is going to be interesting come September.

Dear Belly,

Here's something that you need to read:

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/tony-abbotts-budget-reply-porkie-pies/

Lexi and Belly,

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4700796.html

...from a former media adviser to the Howard and Kennett govts.

Lexi and Poirot, I have been reading it for decades.
See it is 1972 to 1975 all over again.
The media was just as savage, and some within my party just as foolish.
Few non Labor folk care to see the Murdock/Fox link to ultra Conservative politics.
Even less, from that group, want to think about what untra conservatism brings with it.
I how ever have never been much good, at lieing.
To myself as well.
NSW FILTH headlines yesterday, [Labor ministers!]spoke of the biggest fraud in government ranks since the Rum Rebellion.
So what?
Labor post election will be at the factory gates of bosses, government politicians.
Why not take the opportunity now?
To get out and protest, clearly show Labor and unions feelings and separation from the FILTH?
Truth hurts, take every fraud Abbott ever used, take all the wrongs of media and the right.
And know, such is the discontent with Gillard and the wrongs on our side.
WE ARE UNELECTABLE.
Now feel my pain, I know I bring in public life and here, scorn on my head.
And that defeat will bring thousands of supporters to my views.
But unless it brings many more, brave enough to demand change, POWER BROKERS will dig in making ,for generations, the ALP unelectable.
Yet a chance exists, if we let truth guide us, that the needed reform will come very fast.
Australia needs on non Liberal party, not one wasting its power, green, of todays Labor , fighting its own party inflicting an unwanted by most Gillard on us.

I am keen to return to the threads intended path, while refusing to blind myself to our coming loss.
As a sign things government have no control over changes the game.
In this case mainly a positive the sinking Australian dollar will impact in many ways, our exports will gain an advantage.
But mining exports contracts already written will not.
Imports and fuel will suffer, but over all manufacturing should gain, breath again, it was our dollar that stiffed it.
Government has no control over it, but can both suffer [tax drops] and gain from it.
I am no dreamer, but see a shaky Tony Abbott at present, a chance still exist he will not lead for long, Hockey seems not pleased with him.
At some point in history we will see, just have to, a new GFC!
Even here we must one day address the price and availability of housing.
So no easy task for the incoming government and pit falls exist, however they seem likly to have two terms to get it right.

The way to turn politicians into miracle workers is to constantly communicate our wishes to them, as at the BPN planning forum we attended in Parliament House yesterday. The best way is to spend the tiny amount a Votergram costs and tell them all. When we guide, inform, constructively and privately criticise them, then they will produce the miracles we want. It is better to vote for good politicians than favourite parties, because parties are always after the power that being in government gives them to deliver wealth to their financial backers. Kings, queens and dictators have done that for thousands of years. Democracy does not change the nature of those who seek to rule. It just changes the way they get there - by lies and promises, PR, Spin and fancy speeches. There are miracle workers in all parties and amongst independents. It is we, the voters, who let the system down. We don't even cheer them on like a footy team. We just hurl insults and rubbish at them and look surprised when no miracles flow.