Belly, I see what you are saying. I see it differently, most people, & I appear to be backed up by a number of reports I seen recently, are totally pi$$ed off with the two Major Parties self-interest. Hence the interest in Minor Parties.

I don't support or am I a member of any party. Do I have some ideas I would like to see come to fruition. Yes I do, but so does everybody else. I exclaim mine, others do not & keep them under their hat. As they say, "& good men do nothing." I throw Ideas out for discussion with the hope that someone will see that maybe some of them are worthwhile.

Why is there such an interest in Minor Parties? Are people disillusioned with the Two Major Parties? Is the rise of Minor Parties proof of this disillusionment? Is there, "something rotten in Denmark"?

I am not a radical, "Left, Right & the one in the Middle". Unless you call a radical someone who says out loud what, it seems, Belly, I see what you are saying. I see it differently, most people, & I appear to be backed up by a number of reports I seen recently, are totally pi$$ed off with the two Major Parties self-interest. Hence the interest in Minor Parties.

I don't support or am I a member of any party. Do I have some ideas I would like to see come to fruition. Yes I do, but so does everybody else. I exclaim mine, others do not & keep them under their hat. As they say, "& good men do nothing." I through Ideas out for discussion with the hope that someone will see that maybe some of them are worthwhile.

Why is there such an interest in Minor Parties? Are people disillusioned with the Two Major Parties? Is the rise of Minor Parties proof of this disillusionment? Is there, "something rotten in Denmark"?

cont,
I am not a radical. Unless you call a radical someone who says out loud what, it seems, the majority of people are thinking. And they don't care what Major Party faithful think of them. I guess one is not supposed to do that. One is to be lead by the nose to the slaughter house. A bit like Religion really, isn't it. If you don't go along with the particular Dogma then you're, "DOOMED, DOOMED," I say.

Both Major parties have good & bad Policies. The trouble is when either Party won't allow the other Party to pass a Policy because it would gain them extra kudos & they would miss out in the next Election. So, the object of both Major Parties is obstructional. A great way to run a Government, do you agree?

Hey, hey...

Hockey's lifting the debt limit to $500 billion.

It is currently $300 billion - and was forecast under Labor to peak at $370 billion, then fall.

So if any of you chappies were or are expecting the Coalition to "fix the debt" in a hurry...it looks like Eleventy Joe is planning on carrying a lot more.

I notice during his brief press conference that he said:

"The credit rating is what matters."

Well, arf, arf, arf....after all the bellowing about a "budget emergency" (which is still missing) - and having it highlighted time and time again that Australia's credit rating was rated by all the major agencies as AAA - now he's in govt and raising debt ceilings, it's all about the credit ratting.

What a disingenuous lying bozo.

Jayb lets for a time pretend your unmasking in a long ago post as an extremist did not take place.
Let us too not hide the rotting horrible stuff hiding in both party,s.
To say that is not true would be to lie.
For the present the ALP has more maggots than Liberals, for now.
If I took you to almost any ALP monthly meeting, and started to talk about the HSU and NSW FILTH, would it shock you to find over 90% of my party share my hate for them.
Have you watched the history of elections in Italy? Greece? France?
Did you note the repeated need to hold new elections, are you aware of the number of leaders those country,s and the number of party,s supporting them post world war two?
Blame Australian Voters for our over supply of mugs in all houses.
We as is the case for our brand of football, once selecting a team no longer see their faults, we breed and cuddle NSW FILTH my party rather than let its members cross the floor protected the rotten group that have us on our knees now.
A vote can be thrown away on say the Social left of humanity party or Liberals cattle dog Nationals.
Or it can be used to put only one of the two we both know, in power.

Came back to read jayb two posts again.
Glad I did thanks Poirot.
I have both 6 months before the election and after it, considered Labor paid for its actions not its policy's.
Bill Shorten is the man I have said he is and mounting signs show Abbott would need to take a risk to call A DD election.
He will bluff but not truly consider one pre mid next year.
No one knew or bothered to tell us, what happens to the new Senators should a DD be called before they sit.
Jayb I rather think the continuing voting intentions will isolate small party,s.
And warn we must watch for a chance to target the Senate in a DD election towards the end of Abbott.s first term, forget r the dreamers thought that every small party will win Senate seat if one is called.
Line Labor or Liberal will be drawn by then.

More evidence of the deceitful duds all the righties here were expecting to "tackle the debt"

(May 10,2012)
"But an appropriations bill, introduced on Tuesday night after the budget, would increase the nation's credit limit from $250 billion to $300 billion.

The opposition seized on this yesterday as its main attack on the budget. Opposition Leader Tony Abbott called it ''really extraordinary'', saying it ''gives the lie to Wayne Swan's talk about a surplus''.

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey asked why the Commonwealth needed to raise its credit card limit."

http://www.smh.com.au/business/government-bond-issues-to-plummet-20120509-1yd18.html

Well, now he knows, doesn't he.

"The credit rating is what matters."

Hypocrites