Foxy, I challenge you to spend an hour or so today, a your local news agent, or even a bakery, where real people frequent, and ask them if they think they are in great shape.

I find it amusing that on the one hand you accuse me of getting caught up in the spin, yet on the other you refer to our unemployment being 6%.

I also fail to see how a 70% increase in power is not excessive.

Perhaps it's not an essential to you, but I can issues you it is to ordinary folk, and they will vote with their feet.

Wake up and smell the roses my dear.

BTW, I almost put Lexi, instead of Foxy, so tell me, are you one in the same?

As I have said for three years now, the election that Julia Gillard bought would provide enough rope for her to hang themselves, and I was right.

I was also right to suggest that Kevin Rudds biggest enemy was going to be time, and I was right there as well, as even his greatest mentor has said it was a mistake to delay the election.

While it's been a tough three years, it's almost (ALMOST) been worth the wait.

Yes, rehctub,

Foxy used to be Lexi, who used to be Foxy - and now she's Foxy again.

Have to post this.

Australian election 2013 - the graphic novel.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/sep/06/australian-election-2013-comic-strip-graphic-novel?CMP=twt_gu#/?picture=416651951&index=15

Worth a peep if you feel like a giggle.

Butch,
While I look forward to the results tonight, I remain disgusted at the lies, deceit and incompetence of the last 6 years.

I am hopeful of at least some responsible financial management for the next term and the illegal entrants stopped. I am also hopeful that the multicultural ideology will finally be dropped officially and the AGW rubbish abandoned.

I also hope that Labor can rebuild with some competent candidates that have some common sense and practical experience in life. Am disappointed that they attracted so many votes now after the debacle of the last 6 years.

If the polls are correct, we can have positive outlook for the next years.

"I also fail to see how a 70% increase in power is not excessive."

Of course, carbon pricing caused all that (perhaps 10% of it, actually)and we will expect power prices to fall after today, by 70% and by the same logic as you have damned Labor, rechtub.

Such lies and distortions by the LNP, aided and abetted by Murdoch, are promulgated on online in fora like this. Telling the same lie over and over, Goebbels-like, makes it a fact as far as you are concerned, rechtub.

Laws to make the press accountable for lies (not opinion) should have been pursued harder by Labor, but of course the media headed that off, hysterically screaming for the right to factually lie embedded in a right to freedom of expression.

How much do we deserve our democracy if we are only willing to defend it from outside aggression but not from internal media abuse? I have not seen the likes of such bare-fanged allegiance to one side of politics as we have seen over the last three years from MSM and, IMO, the ABC has gone harder at the government than at the opposition, especially with sound-bites and the 24 hour news-cycle giving little real right of reply to the ilk of hysterical claims like a 70% power cost rise carbon price causation.

An opposition has never had to do so little to win government, and many, many Australians are now going to find out the hard way that they should have demanded more from the media.

BTW, rechtub, I don't think any other poster starts threads based on half-cocked misinformation as much as you, but at least you do seem to withdraw once you are properly corrected (after your mud-sling has achieved its purpose)

Am considering learning Mandarin.

After googling Rudd's academic background, it appears that only a proficiency in that language is really all one needs to become a P.M.[or used car salesman to Mandarin speaking folks]. Forget obtaining degrees in economics or finance etc. etc. - obviously these subjects are of lesser importance in obtaining high office.

Gotta zip folks! :)

Quite so, Luciferase.

rehctub spouting 70% electricity increase - as if it's connected with Labor's carbon tax (around 10% actually) - and not, as the reality is, a product of gouging by state utilities is typical of the lies and fabrications floating around in the vacant head space of the electorate.

What can one do if so many people are determine to spout rubbish as truth?

Six months down the track, they'll be laughing on the other side of their faces.....