CG1000 that was meant to be humerus was it?
Abbott won his election he is a nAussie type of bloke and willing to remind us constantly.
IF you understand politics you will as I have, forget the thought his policy's, indeed Labors policy's played much of a role in his victory.
Read it again mate, if you are right and me wrong, use it against me.
Labor like well rotted fruit fell because it was, lets be honest, on the nose.
Abbott is on a hiding to nothing, saying quite wrongly he has a mandate for things even his side shudder at.
Shorten, is going to places Abbott once held as his own.
Abbott by mid next year will be as popular as a dead fox in your bed.
Saturday in NSW the state that both warned of Labors fate and fell first a by election takes place.
In a Liberal held seat, 19 percent is the margin you hold it by.
Current polling has it 54 percent to 46 LABOR!
And this thread was started to review a Liberal threat, fast becoming a promise to Labor the DD election Abbott will not be brave enough to call.

Belly,
This is the stuff of leadership. Read it and understand that he really cares. I only hope he gets the army involved and the mass of unemployed dole bludgers as well.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/18/nsw-bushfires-tony-abbott-says-canberra-will-pay-half-cost-of-rebuilding

Chris,

That's not an Abbott.

This is an Abbott.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/trustme-tonys-silence-on-expenses-is-curious-20131017-2vpjm.html

"When Tony Abbott wasn't casting the election as a referendum on the carbon tax or border security, he was framing it as a referendum on trust.

Restoring trust in government, voters were assured, was the bare minimum Australians were owed after the multiple breaches of the Rudd/Gillard period.

Measured against this imperative, the Prime Minister's studied silence on the ongoing expenses scandal ensnaring some of his own MPs is curious.

It is jarring to see how quickly the public's reasonable expectation of probity in its political representatives has been superseded by the reflex to secrecy and self-protection in the new political class."

Belly, "Shorten, is going to places Abbott once held as his own."

Then he must be going several directions at once. Because Bill Shorten caved in and did not criticise serial whiner Adam Bandt's political cynicism in trying to make mileage out of the NSW bushfires.

Shorten needs to show clean air between Labor and the Greens. The Greens have a long track record for making mileage out of people's suffering. It is a wonder some of the Greens leaders were not discussed in Chris Golis's interesting article "How common are corporate psychopaths in politics?" See here,

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=15585

The Greens do manage to fly under the radar. That is probably because they are on the way out. However, Bill Shorten could easily make the mistake of lending them much needed oxygen, instead of declaring flatly that he doesn't agree with them and forcing them to try to hitch a free ride on someone else's back.

Every word here is my true thoughts, I actually find both my vocal opponents quite fun,and quite wrong.
That gobbled dee gook from OTB is great! to think Bill Shorten in this mans view can be held to account for Brants actions is a grin.
The Parliament sits first next month.
Abbott/Murdock team can put its bills forward , if wanting a DD hope they do not pass.
3 Months must pass then he puts the bills again.
Then armed with the right to call a DD election he can.
But how will his vote go?
Before Shorten took over Labor had increased its election day vote by 3%
Has the trickery behind refugees lost any more.
Are some concerned about the threat to the NDIS?
Is the threat to so many other things Abbott has said after election will go a help or hinder to his over all vote.
Why would little Tony risk it?
If he waits till mid next year he may just may, pass bills with the incoming Senate of fools and promise makers.
Will he then take the risk?
After spending so much will Rupert Murdock his Master let him?
Tony Abbott by his instance on not telling us what is taking place has taken a leaf out of the book that ran the KGB.

Poirot,
Abbott is silent because the issue is so petty that it doesn't deserve more than a passing glance.
Does anyone really care what politicians spend tripping around the country.
For it to be an issue there has to be a direct attempt to fraudulently claim a benefit with the deliberate aim of depriving the Commonwealth of value for a purpose not proscribed in the regulations.
The mere fact that these politicians write up a precis of their trip logistics and lodge it with the parliament indicates that there is no premeditation and no predisposition to commit a crime.
Do you really think the PM is going to stop running the country to answer ridiculous politically motivated questions about some pollies spending habits.
I believe, and so does he, that the PM has better things to do.