My advice is to put Clive and his party under the microscope.It's intention could be to bundle up all the disaffected voters and lead them nowhere.

Abbott cannot be trusted since he already he is talking about putting the GST on everything and increase it.We do not need anymore taxes.

We cannot trust pollies and have to nail them down with solid policies before giving them our votes.Palmer won't win the next election.At best he will take votes from the Coalition and be in Govt with them.Not many traditional Labor voters will vote for a billionaire.

Praxidice, I agree: Big Clive is worth listening to.

<< I'm trying to work out if Clive is genuine about helping all Australians or just about helping the big end of town. >>

Likewise Arjay.

<< Anything on offer as an alternative to the LNP has got to be a step in the right direction >>

Lexi, Anything on offer as an alternative to the LNP or Labor certainly needs to be very carefully considered. But unfortunately they are not necessarily better. Think: the Greens and Family First. And Katter’s mob hasn’t exactly inspired me.

But there is the Stable Population Party, which unfortunately is not gaining any recognition in the lead-up to the federal election.

Clive offers sense & it's that what will make people think more Australia than just me,me. We have lost our sense of direction, our sense of just about everything that is needed to be a cohesive nation. We import way too much including future trouble. We need to sit back & ignore the rose-coloured visions of the do-gooder brigade & focus on reality. One huge reality is that there is no discipline hence the super-urgent need for a national service. There are no economic stimulants hence the need for tax reform, we are being invaded hence the super urgent need for a defence force which actually defends this country instead channelling the invaders here.
Clive still thinks like someone who can still think unlike our academic lawyer-experts who are ruining this country in an almost competitive manner. I think with sufficient support in every which way Clive can rid us of this traitorous cancer & get rid of the moles on our back. We only literally have moments left to change. Don't blow it by thinking of yourself first. Stop the rot !

I think in all fairness, very few like Gillard and labor and the coalition are a mere Skelton of their former self.

So really, what do we have to loose, because there are two key points.
1. Nobody could possibly do worse than we have just seen.

2. At worst, it's a three year term and, if neither of the major parties are elected, in their one right, what a message that would send to them both.

I welcome Mad Clive as, if he polls well a trouble maker for those he gets his votes from , the coalition.
Katter too mad as his voice is high when stressed is in that box, blunder on lads.

It seems clear that independents and new party’s emerge from a spat with the main party’s. Clive is no different in this respect from Katter, Wilkie, Oakeshott and Windsor.

The big question is whether or not the electorates will support more of the from same from "others" and it will be interesting to see how the preferences flow at the next election.

IMHO there will be reduced support for “others” and Greens in percentage terms, this support is already showing signs of stress, which could translate in insufficient preferences to make any difference.

Add to this the fact that as the new party’s try to develop policy we are starting to see defections already.

We can see from current polling that there is still 23% for Greens and Others. The big question is how many of these votes are just “parked” and can the “Others and Greens” hold that base?

It will be less important as to where the votes are going “to” and more important as to where they come “from”.

I can see a QLD/NSW type poll result happening in a 60/40 TPP rout of the government.