Wobbles best get the huge belly laugh out of the thread.
We will not get reality that,s for sure.
Here would be a perfect chance for a caring conservative to take my challenge.
To, truthfully run the rule over Abbott's post election failure to gain friends.

579, have you spoken to people in hospitality?

Are you aware many were happy working Sundays fir time and a half, knowing they had a day off during the week when most others were working.

Play golf on , because it's a joke trying to get on Sundays, not to mention the price hike.

I do not condone slave labour, never have, but, if two adults can't sit down and come to an arrangement without irreverence from unions/labor, then that's a crying shame.

Are you also aware that most fruit can't ripen on a Sunday anymore because the farmers can't afford the staff to pick it.

Office mon to fri work, council, in fact any mon to fri job I have no problems with excessive penalty rates, but seven day trading businesses should be an exception.

Irronicly retail is, but not hospitality or tourism. Go figures,

Julia Gillar, then then minister for employment, you know, before she was given the job to STUFF THE COUNTRY took something like hundreds of awards and condensed them into a few.

Her one size fits all on IR has failed and the results are showing. Oh I'm sorry, you're one of those who thinks we are in great shape,or at least only deteriated in the past few months.

You hit the nail on the head. 60 billion extra debt and 63,000 guaranteed job losses. Unemployment on the rise, not a bad effort for five months. What shape will we be in twelve months.
Abbott will have a version of work choices over again. He has Howard in one ear and Pell in the other for spiritual guidence, even though the holy book has been debunked as fake.
Medicare won't exist and medibank will be flogged off.
Just like Howard, sold off anything he could get his hands on.
Whinge, moan, and do anything in his power to create an unemployment pool because it's in their DNA. They went to the election with no policy and still have none.

579, like it or not, wages must come down as many perks enjoyed today, were negotiated in boom times, and those times are over.

As for going to the election with no policy. What was foremost on most people's minds, the boats and what has Abbott done, he's stopped them!

I know it's hard for you to accept that your beloved labor were useless, but I was of the opinion that the monsoonal season happened in 08, 09, 10,11,12 and 13.

Or, has it only occurred in 2014?

As I said, they were useless! This just proves it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-14/cassidy-liberal-breakaways/5259464
The Link is balanced and rightly names faults on both sides.
That makes it nearer the truth than some comments in the thread.

Belly, good article and to the point. It covers Green philosophy to the core, the word is Sustainability, without it you get nowhere in the long term.
The Liberals are wrong in their approach, Sure, Abbott and Hockey ca say Plan A is "No more corporate welfare"! but then you need a Plan B, something they haven't got!
Sure,Napthine can say plan A is "More corporate welfare" but then you need a Plan B, something they haven't got!
We need that Plan B!

With that, I'm off to see an 'Island Band', and a couple of beers! and meet up with the Whanau.