80% of the DNA of the Labor and Liberal Parties are identical. Most of the other 20% is more to do with emphasis than philosophy. The political spectrum has shifted to the right, with voters given little choice.

Paul as my mob occupied land once Liberal you are quite right.
It baffles me.
True, that the very left considers Labors evolving to be a betrayal.
See Labor followed the voters.
And once they come to understand the swamp in the extreme right, they hold Liberals will get closer to most too.
In the end folk who decry Labors move simply insult voters, by not considering them as worthy of being heard in the debate.
As our middle class grows and the light on the hill is in the second/holiday home, dreams and nightmares of a long gone time seem childlike.
Foxy too much to address here but yes in my view Labor is the party of social consensus Libs increasingly lost in a right of right land that in time will do great harm to us, and them.

no level of govt is WITHOUT Sin
you may recall..the staTES..done away..with..'deeds'
to avoid investors paying transphere fees..[mates swerving mates?]

[WHEN they bundled good and bad alikE..INTO AAA+..[plus non eXitant deedsETC /SEE ROBO SIGNING]..into the mortgage bUNDLES..fraUds we..all seen..FALL

[we BUT HAVNT YET BEEN TOLD FILL OUR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS]
anyhow ELECTRONIC deeds failed..you got no claim/NOR THEY..no-one knows who owns what..BUT..THEY*[WHO BOUGHT FRAUD]....ARNT ON THE CONTRACT..

THUS..[NO STANDING UNDER law..plus
the dead..[ie business/corporations/TRUSTS ETC..]..
cant suffer injurious-loss ..or cLAIM HURT/DAMAGES..NOR TITLE..[THE DEAD FEEL NO PAIN]
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=mers+mortgage+transfers+deemed+illegal&oe=

GOVT PUBLIC SERVANts trick..their ELECTED/maSters [CONTROLLED BY YET oTHER PUBLIC SERVANTS..RUNNING THE TWO AND A HALF PARTY SYSTEM]..into ever greater treason

because boTH PARTIES Pick the fools/selected for their complicity..by ignoraNCE..to enact high treason.[NO END TO THE SCAMS..to send the PEOPLE INTO LANDLESS PEONHOOD

EMPTY HOMES /SHOPS SPEAK FOR THEM SELVES
SOON they will become empty lots

public servants are THe experts
BUT NOTE..no one votes them..out..ever
HERE COME THE NEW patsies..to do even worse treason

they got everything..thus have everything to loose
[except their plunder sitting in off shorE TAX HAVENS]

In my opinion the LNP are far more practical and more cabinet decisions are made, rather than just leave it to the party leader as Labor tends to do. This makes for more considered decisions.

Labor is far more idealistic. For example they were desperate to introduce the NDIS without any consideration to the cost. I think the Gonski education was similar. They went headlong into the NBN without proper analisis, the disbanding of the Pacific solution is a further example of idealism before practicality.

Labor has shown incompedence in managing any scheme they came up with. Nothing was thought through.

I think the LNP has , at last, seen the folly of multiculturalism and will formally remove the policy. After 40 years MC has cost millions and has yielded nothing of any practical value.

The public appeal of the leader appears to be far more important to Labor than it does to the LNP.

The important differences to me are.

Labor run up debt, the Libs pay it off.

Labor increase taxes, the Libs cut them.

Labor loses jobs, Libs create conditions where they increase.

Labor buy every dropkick with handouts, the Libs cut them back.

Labor MP are trying to find lurks to make themselves wealthy at our expense, the Libs are already wealthy & don't need to rip us off.

Labor want to give taxpayer money to union shops, & rip off everyone else, particularly miners to do it.

Libs want to let nature take it's course, let viable companies succeed, & don't care about union shops

Good Morning Everyone,

Thank You all for your responses thus far.
It's great to read the various opinions and
interesting that many of you seem to think
that there's few differences between the two
major parties while others see very distinct
differences. Perhaps part of the problem lies
in the reporting of politics by our mainstream
media and part of the problem, especially for
the Labor Party lies in their failure to remind
voters of their successes. Labor's communication
failures are possibly caused by their mismanagement
of the party and their leadership failure. As the author
tells us in the link I gave in my opening post -
"A bad sales pitch spoiling a great product."

And as far as the Liberal Party is concerned, the
author points out that the Liberal Party, "they know
deep down they would never win power if they told
voters what the Liberal Party really wanted Australia to
look like. So in this case, they offer a ... expertly
misleading sales pitch, for an awful product."

We're told that, "...Australians don't want the gap between
the rich and poor to widen substantially... judging by their
response to Work Choices ... wholly alarmed at the prospect of
the Liberal Industrial Relations agenda. "

"(Australians) do expect government services and assets to
be publicly owned, and not part of the capitalist private
sector, available only to those who can afford to pay."

"People do care about equity and balance in our economy -
they don't want all the wealth and the privilege that comes
with this wealth to be distributed only to the upper-echelons of
our communities."

" ...the Labor Party has failed to remind voters
that the government policies they rely on for the success of
their communities exist because of the Labor Party.
Policies - like Medicare,
a strong public health system, a workplace relations platform
which gives workers safe, fair, and stable employment,
disability support, nation-building infrastructure,
environmental protection and a strong, regulated and growing
economy are all because of the successful work of Labor
governments."

More to come...