Shorten? Good luck.

I reckon Abbott will have him covered easily, practically and intellectually.

Chris,

I think Shorten is bright, far cleverer than Abbot in my opinion, but he let his ego and ambition take over as happens to many of those within a sniff of leadership.
He is tainted now as being the knife man.
Just for interest I have no leanings to either side of politics, just an unbiased observer. Possibly the best stance for anyone involved in the humanities, student or otherwise.

SD

Belly,
Trust you are in better health now.

Bit surprised that you support the views of Poirot and Pjack. Labors loss was its own undoing and not just partly either.

It can be put down to total mismanagement and incompetence by all concerned. The lies, spin and deceit from, government was unprecedented.

Am surprised that 34% voted Labor.

Hope Labor rebuilds with some practical candidates and not continue with ex union hacks and political staffers. You need people with real life experience. You know what I mean, people with common sense.

Pjerk and other left whingers are all making the same blunder that Labor has been making for the past 4 years. They are all assuming that Abbott and his team are incompetent and far right wing.

The election result has shown that they are far more disciplined, consultative and competent than either Dudd or Juliar. The new government is likely to be more boring than the 3 ring circus we have had over the last 6 years, but will implement reasoned and rational policies with no poll driven thought bubbles.

The boats will be stopped, the budget will be returned to surplus, the carbon, mining and FBT taxes will be removed, the green and red tape will be shredded and business will once again be able to flourish.

See the near hate?
Belly,
Most of us could see it hence the outcome of the election. It's time for you lot to let the decent people get on with their lives & stop sabotaging everything.

As opposed to the Right whingers when they could not accept Labor won a minority government, one that Abbott would have sold his Grandmother including a Carbon Tax to obtain (according to Tony Windsor).

The LNP will have better luck dealing with a RW biased Senate than a Left, but it will be interesting to see what weird agreements are forged to get legislation through the Senate. The LNP might try sooner rather than later before the new Senate comes into play next year.

I just hope that we don't see a bias towards big business (the already rich) with less taxes (Clive Palmer effect) while the most poorly paid are ignored. Although to give Clive his due his website does mention better pay for all those traditionally low paid workers such as nurses as well as a rise for aged pensioners. I hope the Palmer Party pushes that agenda at least.

Abbott has already proposed aged care workers payrise to be stopped because we can't afford it. Yet we can afford to give away mining tax and tax breaks for the rich. Not looking forward to the way ahead but can only hope Abbott means it when he says he will govern for all.

I can't see it, but to be fair everyone deserves a chance to perform and perhaps in one or two years there will be more information for critique or praise.