Dear Philip S.,

Don't fret. The Libs can always attempt another
"Lindsay pamphlet scandal" as they did prior to
the 2007 election if they get really worried
about the election outcomes. Or alternatively,
they could set up a "slush fund" as Mr Abbott
did when he feared the threat of Pauline Hanson.
And I'm sure that News Ltd's editors, its senior
correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery,
and political commentators will willingly become
parties to whatever ludicrous scams will be on offer.
Utegate was one such example.

So, cheer up.

Foxy,

Brilliant Broelman cartoon..."The Cheshire Prime Minister"

https://twitter.com/Broelman/status/383971460529672192/photo/1

(Worth a copy and paste)

: )

Dear Poirot,

Thanks.

Will copy and paste.

Brilliant!

Suseonline, "Gee, there are barely 1% of Muslims in Australia, so I doubt their vote meant much!"

You must have your tongue planted firmly in your cheek after very recent headlines like this,

<Grand Mufti threatened Labor over Israel ‘bias’

Australia’s senior Islamic cleric threatened to withdraw community support for federal Labor in Western Sydney if union leader Paul Howes replaced Bob Carr in the Senate, a leaked email reveals>

- from the Financial Review

Another article,

http://tinyurl.com/mufti-threatens-Labor

That leaves no doubt at all that the ethnic tail swings the Labor dog in its pre-selections and in Labor policies too.

It is simply amazing how blind you are to Islam, yet you are constantly denouncing the Christian religion.

<"How is it that the Collingwood Football Club can get 80,000 people to join and we can get 45,000," Mr Shorten said during an interview on the ABC's Insiders program today.

Asked whether any recommendations from the so-called Faulkner, Bracks, Carr review - commissioned after the party narrowly scraped through the 2010 federal election - would be implemented, Mr Shorten said:

"I think the most pressing overhaul of the membership is to make the party bigger.

............
Mr Shorten also said he wants to introduce quotas to boost the number of gay and lesbian politicians in Parliament, a move welcomed by Rainbow Labor, the group that represents the party's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex members>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/shorten-says-alp-must-grow-party-membership/4987526

So Shorten is obviously opposed to stopping the corruption in NSW Labor and instead he is going for spin to recruit new members. The biscuit for the new gay members is that he will manipulate pre-selections to give them a leg-up into parliament.

This is the Party that Rudd rightly said needed to become more democratic and accountable. Of course that will never happen. Any wonder they want to force Rudd out of Parliament too, despite the fact that electors put him there.

Here's Bill Shorten on this morning's "Insiders"
(29/09/13) program - and what he actually did say:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/bill-shorten-joins-insiders/4987552