Praxidice,
You notice that the programme I mentioned was the ABC 7.30. If it had been a commercial station the Labor supporters, like Lexi, would have been claiming bias and Laborphobia, Gillard bashing. However the ABC to them is Gods word so they make out it was all above board and in workers interests.

I suggest 7.30 did not disclose further because it would reveal another broken promise and ineptitude by Labor. For Labor, the announcement is the crucial part, non delivery is not important.

Banjo - You notice that the programme I mentioned was the ABC 7.30. If it had been a commercial station the Labor supporters, like Lexi, would have been claiming bias and Laborphobia, Gillard bashing. However the ABC to them is Gods word so they make out it was all above board and in workers interests

I didn't miss the ABC report, nor the News Ltd story claiming RAbbott & Company are already arranging to flog off both ABC and SBS. What I cannot understand is how 'workers' can look up to a mob that spend half their life shafting them. Can't everybody see its 'them' & everyone else, regardless what team is playing ??

While we are not electing miracle workers we too are not dumping dills.
Not all fit that, in both sides.
We more than any time in my life are a divided nation.
And prax thinks Clive can be of service?
Remember what the greens did to Labor.
Remember too the independents, all bar the Tassy Devil*refugees* from the Liberals pup the Nationals.
If I know any thing, at all, Liberal/Nationals would be better off with none of the above gaining seats in any house.
A divided house, needing deals, such as the infamous NSW upper house is anti democratic.
I would never live in Tasmania, its government is shattering!
Best I say no more there.
Points worth considering.
No government can please every one/ not all who complain actually understand why things take place.
And *for every act a government takes we can not see all the impacts until they take place*.
Measure the worth of politicians with both eyes open.

Dear Belly,

I judge politicians by their actions or
often their inactions.

I prefer a Party of activism rather than a Party
who can only condemn and offers us no solutions
of any substance and whose past record is
anything but "golden." I've lived under both Labor
governments and Liberal. I know which I prefer.
The enemy isn't conservatism, the enemy isn't
liberalism. The enemy is BS. And you know which Party
is full of that.

I in post after post above , at least I hope I have, said Labor has the better policy,s.
By about that country Mile times ten.
But Lexi you surely will agree, the current policy,s displayed or avoided, by Abbott,s circus are as untrustworthy as any ever put before us or our ancestors.
There Lexi is the painful truth, they still will not return us to government.
We, both of us, gloated when Dillard leads Abbott in the polls, but evenn then, even with such a failure in place, they will not vote for us.
Here is the very heart of the matter, we take dead and rotting meat, not our policy,s to a voting booth.
In June NSW FILTH will re-fire our opponents guns, we, so far have paid lip service, to a few FILTHY MINISTERS, and the maggots who fed on?
US! with them.
Try to see the uncommitted/the Gillard haters/Rudd lovers/the stark fear of our seeming soft actions against our intestinal worms and know, nothing you or I ever do, or can do will change the outcome.

Belly - nothing you or I ever do, or can do will change the outcome.

You can at least HELP to reform the ALP. There are far more party members than caucus. If every single one made a conscious decision to join forces and DEMAND the idiots in power recognize the wishes of the majority, the clowns would have no choice but to sit up and listen. One huge advantage the red-headed witch has provided is TIME, more than sufficient for the ALP grass-roots faithful to initiate the necessary revolution (if they choose to extract their digits). You have at least come to grips with the fact that the party has a bad infestation of maggots. As chinese philosopher Lau Tsu said, 'The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet' (usually incorrectly rendered as 'The longest journey begins with a singe step'). You've already made the first step by admitting the maggot infestion, now its a matter of convincing others. Get sufficient off their dots before September & you most definitely do have a chance of changing the otherwise inevitable outcome. Note that its infinitely more difficult for a political party to fight back from oblivion than to pull its socks up before falling over the precipice. If its any consolation, both the greens & the LNP also have their own infections however its doubtful if they have recognized it to date. Make no mistake, I don't like political parties, never have and never will, because it always ends up with the party line being more important than wishes of constituents. That said, its gonna be difficult to get rid of the things in the forseeable future so the next best thing is to kick the clowns at the top of the pile into submission. They must be taught they are there for the benefit of the sheeple and not for their own selfish interests, a situation common to all like organizations.