Chris,
I disagree with you.

This current Labor government is absolutely hopeless.

They simply cannot bounce back. In fact they could not run a chook raffle in a pub.

Labor has had some good polys in the past, but not the current mob.

They need a good clean out and then recruit some decent candidates for the future. Ones that are genuine and do not just spin.

Banjo, I agree Labor needs a good clean out. I don't have much of an opinion about Shorten, for one

I believe both major parties need a good clean out .
Rudd is the first one that needs to be culled urgently.

However, given what we have, we can all only vote on the party with the policies that best affect us.

Thus, because I have a daughter who may soon think about having a baby, and because I salary sacrifice a car, I may have to go with Liberals this time. :(

Mind you, I have a recurring nightmare where I see Abbott sitting up on the world stage with the world watching him, and he doesn't like a question put to him...so he just sits there and glares at the journalist in a silent rage for ages. How embarrassing .

Even worse than that, imagine if his party dumped Abbott in favour of Julie Bishop...?

Dear Suse,

Your daughter would actually do better under Labor's policy
because it's locked in and costed and everyone gets the
same amount. The Libs - is of benefit only to the uber
rich - and it's only half-costed. The word is that this is
just an election ploy that will be rubbished anyway - once they
get in . And it will only be legislated (if it passes in the
Senate) in 2015 - and as former Senator Minchin has stated -
it doesn't stand a chance to pass in the Senate) whereas
the Labor policy is currently operating.
So, you really need to look into this before you decide
who to vote for. And yes, Mr Abbott's latest thing about
buying back the boats now from Indonesia - scares the heck
out of me. With that sort of logic - Australia's in big trouble
if this man gets in.

Well, there you go, Suse...

"Thus, because I have a daughter who may soon think about having a baby, and because I salary sacrifice a car, I may have to go with Liberals this time. :("

If the likes of you would consider voting for this dopey pollie (Abbott's upper middle-class welfare PPL and boat buy back are cretinous and stooopid respectively IMO)...

I give up.

: )

Labor is big on announcements and promises but very poor on delivery.

The Top Labor Lemons – so far!

1. Carbon Tax – “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.”

2. NBN – $50 billion but no cost-benefit analysis

3. Building the Education Revolution – The school halls fiasco

4. Home Insulation Plan (Pink Batts) – Dumped

5. Citizens Assembly – Dumped

6. Cash for Clunkers – Dumped

7. Hospital Reform – Nothing

8. Digital set-top boxes – Cheaper at Harvey Norman

9. Emissions Trading Scheme – Abandoned

10. Mining Tax – Continuing uncertainty for our miners

11. Livestock export ban to Indonesia – Over-reaction

12. Detention Centres – Riots & cost blow-outs

13. East Timor ‘solution’ – Announced before agreed

14. Malaysia ‘solution’ – Only just agreed, sort of. Gillard’s great deal for Australia, Malaysia get none, after we’’ve paid god knows what to update facilities there, and we get 4000

15. Manus Island ‘solution’ – On the backburner

16. Computers in Schools – $1.4 billion blow out; less than half delivered

17. Cutting Red Tape – 12,835 new regulations, only 58 repealed

18. Asia Pacific Community – Another expensive Rudd frolic. Going nowhere

19. Green Loans Program – Abandoned. Only 3.5% of promised loans delivered

20. Solar Homes & Communities plan – Shut down after $534 million blow out

21. Green Car Innovation Fund – Abandoned

22. Solar Credits Scheme – Scaled back

23. Green Start Program – Scrapped

24. Retooling for Climate Change Program – Abolished

25. Childcare Centres – Abandoned. 260 promised, only 38 delivered

26. Take a “meat axe”’ to the Public Service – 24,000 more public servants added

27. Murray Darling Basin Plan – back to the drawing board

28. 2020 Summit – Meaningless talkfest

29. Tax Summit – Deferred and downgraded

30. Population Policy – Sets no targets

31. Fuel Watch – Abandoned

32. Grocery Choice – Abandoned


Top marks to whoever put this list together. This type of analysis should be done on every government.

To be continued