Pjerk

Just looking forward to Labor losing and spending a year or two rubbing your nose in it.

SM,

No suprises here.
You guys have been "robbing" us blind for years.

Hi Poirot,

You may gain some inspiration from a real hero, not just your friend:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/malala-yousafzai-un-taliban-militants-speech

But I have my doubts. I fervently hope that Malala is still celebrating her birthdays in seventy or eighty years' time.

But she will have to run the gauntlet - for life - against your other friends, the cultural warriors, in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I just don't understand how you right-wingers can live with yourselves.

Joe

Wonderful Malala...much respect for her.

Not much respect for you, Joe.

What have her plight, and her aims and ambitions, got to do with the political machinations in Oz at the mo?

Fancy Mr Feminist using her to make a cheap point on an unrelated thread like this.

BTT

: )

Shadow Minister, do you own the horse with that name.
I once followed him he had talent but it seems not enough.
Based on your form, observed over a number of years, you will if defeated blame others for it.
I understand.
Truly I do, having no opposition you had every right to think you had it in the bag.
Must hurt heaps, knowing that is now far from true.
Horse racing may actually be of help, some racing bits are to hold a horses mouth in that race in position.
Tony would benfit greatly.
From one that keeps his mouth shut.

Whatever faults some may wish to see in Tony Abbott, one thing is sure, he at least is a Dinky-Di Aussie, budgie smugglers and all. So he's not perfect, but then who is, in Oz politics or otherwise?
I put my money on Tony because he is real; warts and all I can relate to him and his views, and I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt to his ruck-men and ladies to do the right thing, and to pull the economy back on the right track - for everybody's benefit.

I can't say the same for Kevin Rudd. Kevin strikes me as a master ring-meister, a puppet-master whose real self is hidden behind a purpose-built image, and whose utterances are precision-connived to give any audience exactly what he thinks they want to hear.
You can certainly count on Kevin to promise the world, but I for one would not count on him delivering.

Kevin has already had one go, and he pulled some fairly large rabbits out of his hat without conferring with the 'back-room' boys (and girls) and got his comeuppance in short order, to the back of the neck. Are we now expected to believe they have all forgiven him his past sins, and are fully backing Kevin the 'man' - or are they merely backing Kevin the 'image', Kevin the magician, Kevin the conjurer?
I know what I believe, and I have yet to see many leopards changing their 'spots' - unless when trying to con an unsuspecting 'gazelle'.
Of course, strutting the stage in full spotlight can enable some to adopt a fully-believable alternative 'persona', but it is the harsh light of reality which produces their true 'colours'.

In the end, this election ought be determined not only on 'policies', but also on a belief that the spruiker of those policies will be able to deliver, and without bringing the economy to its knees to do it.