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I note Abbott and Morrison have reattached their gonads now that Mr Abbott has slimed and wimped his way through his official Indonesian visit.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/government-refuge-afghan-interpreters-families-scott-morrison/4998990

""I wish to stress that the full arsenal of measures represented in the Coalition's policies to stop the boats remain available to be deployed by the Government," Mr Morrison said."

Note the word "arsenal" just to give it a wartime touch.

Gee, this guys has lots of gonads : )

I also note that when refugees drown en-route to Italy, they have a national day of mourning.

We, on the other hand, wipe our brows in faux concern...and talk about arsenals, economic migrants, scourges (thanks for that one Mr Abbott) etc.

Wonderful fearful, insular mob are Australians.

Foxy,

I'll get back to you on Belly's thread.

Yes really, Shadow Minister.
As for what's not working ...

Getting rid of climate science wasn't a success.

As the new Climate Council has proven to Mr Abbott.
Then of course asylum seeker boat arrivals (stopping
boasts doesn't count). Accountability is being
questioned. Refusing to
answer questions and clamping down on cabinet ministers
doesn't help. There's considerable disquiet on the
lack of official information about boat arrivals and
maritime search and rescue missions from Scott Morrison's
Immigration portfolio. Then there's the
revelations of George Brandis'
and Barnaby Joyce' spending taxpayer's money to attend
the wedding of a right-wing shock jock's daughter's
wedding was hardly a good look. Especially for a new
Attorney-General responsible for the drafting of
Ministerial Code of Conduct.

And there's quite a lot more as Poirot has been pointing
out to you on this thread.

It appears that many issues like - asylum seeker policy
and carbon emissions are far easier issues for an
Opposition then for a Government to deal with as Mr Abbott
and his Cabinet Ministers are beginning to learn. Plus
the fact that now
the government may have to also deal with a hostile Senate.
We'll see how that pans out. There's of course many
other issues like the Indigenous
problems, the Government's Paid Parental Scheme,
the Mining Tax, and tax cuts in general that won't go
away. How will the "Conviction Politician" be
judged by the voters - once greater scrutiny is applied?

Early days yet - however, will this Government find itself
with an Opposition as destructive as the one that the
previous Government had to deal with?
We'll have to wait and see.

Foxy,

So you have nothing other than the coalition does things differently from your ideological wishes?

The climate commission was a government funded activist group that did no actual research, so no one "got rid of the climate science" It looks as though there are enough senators to easily get rid of the carbon and mining taxes too.

PS, the boats are a fraction of what they were under labor a few months ago.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You did ask me what I saw as "not working,"
and I answered you.
If you want your opinion to be respected,
than you have to at least acknowledge that not
everyone sees things as you do.

No Foxy,

I asked what's not working, NOT what's not working for you!

You said that the government's not working, and I asked you for an example, not a fat ideological whinge.

The coalition is achieving exactly what it said it would. What it is not doing is indulging in the megaphone diplomacy that Labor so cherished.

Dear Shadow Minister,

You did ask me for an opinion - I wasn't aware
that it had to be one you would approve of.
You should have made things clearer as to what
you wanted to read. I wouldn't have wasted my
time in replying to you.

I stated things as I see
them - that's my prerogative. Yours is to see
things differntly - which is fair enough.
But I don't accept your suggestion that I
didn't answer your question. That's simply
not true. I did. You just don't happen to like
what I said. And,
please don't get all self- righteous on me -
it simply won't wash. As I stated earlier - the
Coalition has a lot to answer for - and now that
they are having to actually deal with problems
they are finding that things are different when
in government than when they were in opposition.