If we are going to have a biilionare in Parliament my preference would be Twiggy Forrest. He has demonstrated a genuine concern for people. If Q & A is anything to go by Katter and Palmer were just loud mouth puffs of air being used by the ABC to bash the party they hate. Please Tony Abbott sell off the ABC to get some balance into it.

Keep praying Belly, you just may get your wish.

Heaven knows why on earth you would want these fools back in. Must be the old die hard brain washing that labor seems to inflict on their loyal, unconditional followers .

But please, spare a thought for the rest of us, as it's our money as well that this mob has pissed away, assisted by the likes of yourself.

Belly I have a feeling you may be wrong about where Palmer will get his votes. Judging by the comments on another couple of forums I have recently looked at, there are an enormous number of labor voters who are very disillusioned, & upset with Labor, but could never bring themselves to vote Liberal, or Abbott.

I expect quite a number of them will chose Palmer as an alternative to either. I do believe that quite a few who have decided they just cant vote for this labor lot, & are planning to vote Liberal, will very happily chose to vote for Palmer as a happy alternative. Thus I think his vote will come almost equally from both majors. It could be an interesting election.

I see Palmer as too erratic to lead a country. Leaping into the deep end, half baked, then rushing off somewhere else may be a good way to run a small miner, who must grab opportunities when available, but is too irrational for me in a PM. A bit too much like Rudd & his catastrophes.

Still you would have to be rather irrational to even consider voting for Gillard, so he may have appeal in those who could still vote for her.

I do think it is irrational for Labor voters to be even considering a billionaire boss, but then it's a strange world.

It would be ironic, & what she deserves, but can you imagine Gillard & her lot trying to deal with the mess her cunning Abbott traps will leave us in. Yes what she deserves, but what could we possibly have done to deserve such a fate. It would make Grease & Spain look like a summer picnic.

Rechtub, do you understand any thing, are you a child posing as ADULT?
Do you see me talking of my side, admitting they are beaten?
Bloke lets be honest, with each other.
You should not comment on things you know nothing about, say stick to sausages
Now take a deep breath read spindoc,s post, slowly, then read it again.
Get an interpreter if you need one.
Both I and from Menzies house spindoc, * UNDERSTAND *
Both katter and Clive are going to take Conservative votes therefore are of little use to any one.
You in constantly questioning my under standing/honesty should first consider the story about glass houses.
Spindoc he is one of yours tell him, it will be worth being a scrutneer in some QLD seats!

Belly, I fully understand. I understand that despite the terrible job labor have done, and despite the fact that they will head to the election, with gillard as leader, and despite your vented anger about her, and the parties direction, you are still going to vote for her.

If you don't like labor, as they are, and your can't bring yourself to change your ways, may I suggest you pay the fine, and don't vote, or, vote informally.

Either way, you would be doing us all a favor.

There is some good stuff proposed by the ALP, the NLP, the Greens, KAP and Clive’s mob. The problem is amongst the good there is a lot of bad.

If any one of them had an absolute majority we get the bad with the good and that’s bad.

Clive said – “Section forty one of the constitution says every Australian will have the right to vote and having right to vote is having the right to choose.”

I say - Spot on Clive, it sounds like you support proportional representation to me?

The current crop of politicians in the House of Representatives is not representative of those Australians chose in the last election. This is due to this countries undemocratic disproportionate two party preferred system. A proportional system would have delivered Labour 57, Coalition 65, Greens 18, Others 10, seats in the House of Representatives.

Clearly Australian voters are not represented by those they chose.

If we are fortunate that come September this parliament is hung and if Clive’s mob is fortunate enough to hold the balance or is able to form a government. Will his party commit to proportional representation?