Lexi - According to the latest Newspoll the PM is catching up.
Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?
Interesting times ahead.

Actually the race is between a red-headed witch & a RAbbott, at least until Big Clive gets the Cessna Citation fired up. Can a RAbbott run faster than a red-headed witch ?? .... probably not if she gets her broomstick tuned up although even that will have a hard time catching a corporate jet :)

Lexi

'According to the latest Newspoll the PM is catching up.
Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?
Interesting times ahead. '

r u using wayne swan or penny wong economics to reach your conclusions?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/both-sides-buckled-on-party-funding-but-voters-punished-julia-gillard/story-fn59niix-1226656560806

runner - wayne swan or penny wong economics

Ahhh so, the wong wun vs the wabbott.

We certainly do live in interesting times :)

Poirot, I think your vantage point may turn out to be quicksand.

Praxidice I don' know where you get your info. but internal labor polling leaked today says Rudd will be the only Labor member from Qld after the election. I'll bet "London to a brick on" that the red head would love Abbott's credibility right now. Sorry Lexi.

Yes in deed, interesting times. What will be very interesting is watching just where all those Labor people chucked out will find jobs. Academia won't have so much money to waste, or perhaps even the inclination, after having 1.5 billion extracted from their budgets, & the unions are getting a bit short these days.

We have mechanical street sweepers now, did away with night carts years ago, & even took the men off the garbage trucks, so what are the poor dears going to do. Oh I know, live off us on their pension.

runner,

The Australian newspaper shows that the Prime Minister
has narrowed the gap on Mr Abbott on who would make the
better leader. This was taken from the Herald-Sun.
The election
may well turn out to be a surprise (not the landslide
as some would have us believe). Don't forget they said
that Keating wouldn't win...

Dear Prax.,

This may lighten things up a bit:

I'd like to share with you a bit of good-hearted humour
which shows the difference between the PM and Mr Abbott
and their qualifications for leadership:

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are sitting next to each other
on a flight from Sydney to Canberra. Tony leans over to Julia
and asks if she would like to play a fun game. Julia just
wants to take a nap, so she politely declines.

Tony persists. He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you
don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and visa versa."
Again Julia politely declines.

Tony gets agitated and says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer
you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay $50."

This catches Julia's attention. "How much is the GST on a
loaf of bread?" asks Tony. Julia doesn't say a word, reaches
in to her wallet, pulls out $5 and hands it to Tony.

Now, it's Julia's turn. She asks Tony," What hops, carries its
young in its pouch and flies?"

Tony looks at Julia with a puzzled frown. He takes his laptop
computer and searches his references. Taps into his air phone
with his modem and searches the internet, the Commonwealth
National Library. Frustrated, he send emails to his pals in the
Liberal Party - all to no avail.

After an hour, he wakes up Julia and hands her $50. Julia
politely takes the $50 and turns away to get back to sleep.

Tony, who's more than a little miffed wakes Julia again and
asks, "Well, so what is the answer?" Without a word, Julia
reaches into her wallet, hands Tony Abbott $5 and goes back
to sleep.

Hasbeen - Rudd will be the only Labor member from Qld after the election

I don't have any decent contacts inside ALP Queensland however I wouldn't doubt your information, certainly the dying duck is politically a dead man walking, his Lilley constituents definitely won't give him another run, likewise Graham Perrett at Sunnybank or whatever his electorate is called and a few others I've had dealings with in the past. On the other hand, there is a massive amount of angst with the Newman / Seeney / Nicholls dictatorship that just maybe might translate to a few more ALP ticks than we'd otherwise expect. The numbskulls have just written their political death warrant with their hairbrained attack on PV system owners & that won't help the RAbbott. The real dark horse is Big Clive. If, as there is every reason to expect, he runs candidates in every house & senate seat, he'll be the first third option we've ever had. He has good 'real world' candidates with infinitely better credibility than the average major party candidate and will undoubtedly pull votes from both ALP & LNP. Whether enough to take government in his own right is yet to be seen, but in any case he has every chance of being top dog in a coalition of rats & mice parties. I think its far early to tell how things will pan out by September but it certainly won't be a boring run-up to the election.