Well, unlike "gunboat" Rudd & the red witch, who stand for spin, lies & freshly fabricated personalities, like the real Julia, Tony Abbott stands for a touch of honesty, service to the community.

A fair dinkum bloke with no pretenses or pretensions. One who is just what you see, & what you get. Actually he aught to appeal to Laborites, as the sort of bloke they used to produce, before the greens & academia took over the party & turned it into something unrecognisable lead by the unmentionable.

Time for you Labor lot to take a deep look at yourselves. Time to see you are being, & have been for years, lead by the scum that has drifted to the top of the swamp.

The Labor stinks with the electorate because it has been scandal ridden in the States and that has flowed through to the federal level.

It is enough for an alternative LNP government to demonstrate that it will endeavour not to become similarly afflicted. Although how any future government could become as prone to 'mistakes' and scandals as the State and federal Labor governments have been is difficult to imagine.

Rudd must pretend that the scandals never existed. But all that will do is allow the public concern with the lack of ethics and principles of Labor and the unions to fester away. The rotting still smells.

Rudd has said that he will be reviewing Labor policies. He has given very little away and he said it will take along time to confer. The ministry has to be finalised and there will be new faces.

A fat lot of good any of that does when the electorate knows full well that the men and women who have corrupted the party and the associated union movement for years are just keeping their heads down until after the scrutiny has passed when they will continue with their dirty business as usual.

Gentlemen,

Talking about "touches of honesty," and "dirty business."
As well as Mr Abbott's "character."
The following links are some must reads for all:

http://theaimn.com/2013/05/01/may-day-may-day/

http://theaimn.com/2013/01/19/never/

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/tony-abbott-and-his-slushy-question-of-character/

onthebeach,

Notwithstanding you're prone to exaggeration.

To describe Rudd's comments as "sabre-rattling" is bone-shakingly silly.

Who was he rattling a "sabre" at?

Apart from the ill-conceived and hardly achievable Coalition plan to "turn around the boats"?

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Must say it's been heartening to have a good old political stoush once again (takes me back endearingly to the Howard years)

I am genuinely surprised how many morons Rudd commands, got to give him credit for that !
It's almost like Hitler's following except the Germans were rewarded with a boom economy which the "good allied forces" then destroyed.
here Rudd has a similar following but fortunately for him morons are easily pleased so he doesn't need to be a good economic manager.

So Abbot is going to put Australian infrastructure at the top of his agenda but the only promise made is for freeways in Sydney and Melbourne and ignore the Commonwealth studies already done on the Melbourne rail tunnel and high speed trains. His visionary policy of building an agrarian utopia at the top end of Australia to feed Asia’s growing population. Asia has too much desert and too little have arable land and water to grow enough food.
He knows there is huge potential market for food in Asia there always
Asia is both ethically right and possible. Sadly he does not seem to understand the constraints standing it the way of his vision .

The UN Current estimate of refugees in the world is 40 million with many more from predicted disasters, such as rising sea levels, more extreme weather, creating millions more refugees for the foreseable future. Sadly Mr Abbot and Rudd know and both are responsible for drowning 100,000s of boat people them because the Australian navy only accounts the ones that are reported to them. The reality is that thousands of overcrowded little boats have sank without ever entering Australian territorial waters or died in traveling to and in Asian refugee camps .

At this stage Abbot’s vision reminds me of what 1970 when a utopian hippy exodus north to Queensland failed. Today all that is left is except a few villages, commune and interesting art, craft, tourist shops.

What is needed is 3 million Asians that can adapt to the heat and the desire to live in the top end most with 5 years contracts and flown in from asia. A new Land Army Division to mobilize them to use Australian agricultural knowhow initially at officer Officer and NCO level. In 5 years the trained
refugees would, work on the land, look after the livestock and crops, Fishing boats and fish farms. The mining companies know how to build suitable homes. The town ships be laid out like medium density English New Towns experienced architects and planner brought in.