Early days...but all set for One Term Tones

http://m.smh.com.au/national/voter-mood-turns-on-coalition-20131124-2y436.html

"Bill Shorten has made the strongest debut of any opposition leader since Kevin Rudd, propelling Labor into the lead against a government weighed down by its secretive asylum seeker response and an unconvincing commitment to action on global warming.

The first Fairfax-Nielsen poll since the election on September 7 has charted a rapid recovery for the ALP, with the opposition shooting to a 52 to 48 per cent lead over the government, according to the preferences of respondents. This is the quickest poll lead achieved by any federal opposition after losing an election.

It is also the first time in more than three years that Labor has led on the two-party-preferred vote.

The result will be seen as a wake-up call to the Abbott government as it struggles to maintain confidence in its tough stop-the-boats policy while refusing to reveal the most basic details on grounds of operational security."

Just sayin'.......

Dear Poirot,

I'm sorry that I couldn't comment on the other
thread where your post got deleted because I
had used up my quota of posts on that thread.
So I'm commenting here. I'm not sure what sort
of an appeal process there is to appeal a
Moderator's decision. I don't even know how does
one start that procedure of even if one can.

Perhaps it could be suggested that just the "profanity"
could be deleted but not the entire post? So that the thrust
could be allowed to remain?

Anyway, I hope that Graham won't give you a "holiday"
as you suggest. This place would become rather dull
without you.

Fingers-crossed.

This article puts it in a nutshell:

"JULIA Gillard and Bill Shorten last week gave the Prime Minister advice they should hope like hell he won't take.

Because if Tony Abbott really were the wrecker and thug they claim, then he would indeed say sorry to Indonesia - sorry Labor had been so catastrophically stupid.

He really would promise Indonesia that Australia would never again spy on the phones of its President, his wife and his ministers as the Rudd government authorised our spies to do in 2009.

He would say only people as reckless and paranoid as then prime minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy, Gillard, would bug a president as friendly to us as Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Sorry, he'd tell Yudhoyono. Sorry we once had those crazier in charge. I'm here to fix it.

And with glee, Abbott would bury Labor's face so deep in this stinking mess with Indonesia that new Opposition Leader Bill Shorten would never surface.

So why doesn't Abbott do something so clearly to his advantage?

Why doesn't he listen to Gillard, a former prime minister who now sides with Indonesia against the Government of her own country?

So, yes, Abbott could give in to Indonesia - nothing easier - and make Labor seem cowboys, wreckers and hypocrites.

Instead, he's kept his head, endured Labor's insults and acted not in his own interests but in Australia's. At last, an adult in charge."