Foxy a degree of self control is needed by me to post here.
I could point to the opening up of our banking and trade systems and list great achievements of Labor.
But would be hard pressed to find such in the other side.
I understand every view is worth hearing seeing.
But too for some my views are not at that level.
Rather than try to rebut paper tigers/untrue statements I will visit only randomly.

Hi Foxy, great to see you back. However I have to disagree with some of your thoughts.

1/ Labors communication difficulty are for 2 reasons. They have lied to us so often that it is hard to even think of believing a word they say, & 2/ Most of them have no idea of what they will do next, so can't very well explain it to us.

2/ The liberals have a much better idea of what will work, but have trouble with the message, with our ABC try like hell to muddy the waters for them.

3/ Labor want a huge difference between haves & the other lot, provided they are the haves. Look at union deals that destroy industries.

4/ others later.

Oh & Belly yes they opened banking from making small profits in a service industry, to making huge profits, & controlling most industry.

Then mate, don't forget who sold off the Commonwealth bank, & unlike the Libs, did it sneakily without warning after an election. You know, something like the redhead, who brought in a tax she had promised she would not do.

As I said Foxy, they have lied & been sneaky so often, we can't believe a word they say.

Dear Foxy,

<<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 English language makes a clear distinction between 'many' and 'much', 'few' and 'little'.

I did not claim that the differences between the parties are few: indeed as mentioned by others here, there are many such differences, especially in the area of economics - but what I wrote, without contradiction, was that there is "not MUCH difference", because when it comes to what matters most - our individual freedoms, they both are practically the same, they both believe that it is OK to order us around.

Dear Belly,

I understand.

There are quite a few people who are happy to support
the Liberal campaign which stresses "government waste"
and decries Labor policies that benefit all Australians.
People don't realise what it means to cut, slash, and burn
government services until such a time when their lives are
personally affected by these cuts. When their child's class
at school suddenly has 45 students per teacher, instead of
20. When they have to wait 18 hours in the emergency room
at their local hospital because there are no nurses or
doctors available to see them - and so on.

The next three years should prove interesting.
It's going to be a different scenario now that the rhetoric
about what's wrong with the Labor governments has to change
to the Libs having to actually having to govern. There's
a big difference between rhetoric, and having to govern.

Dear Hassie and Yuyutsu,

Thank You both for your contributions.

Please keep them coming.

It should continue to become an interesting thread
if we get a wider variety of opinions. Again - Thank You.

im watching the two bourkes in back..of bourke
giving a talk on the big bad droubt..all wet..[in the pouring rain..BEATING DOWN ON THE..'FRONT*'..veranda..

cheers from the land..of free-lunch
for drought..AND FOR Flooding PLANES....its win win

FOR PEOPLE ON THE LAND..DROUGHT..IS A THING YA PLAN FOR/BY NOT OVERSTOCKING IT IN THE WET..FEEDING OVERSTOCKED-BEASTS..ON FARM..
ENSURES THE DUST COMES BACK SOONER..

THE RAIN..IS SO HEAVY..THEY MISSED SOME DRY DAM SHOTS
DAMM THEM filling dams..we cant even get rain..to hold off WHILE WE MAKE HAY...HEY?

YEP PRIVATIZE THE COMMONWEALTH BANK FOR 9 billion
Now it pays the shareholders 4 and a half billion..per half year

yeah..great stuff..no competition..but dont sweat IT THE PUBLIC SERVANTS HOLD THE SHARES[for their super suppers]..to remain in the dry trough doing it tough.

both parties are run by public sevices
think how many govt depts are big enough/clever enough..to do that.

too EASY..THE PUBLIC SERVANT INBRED ELITES..
running their autocratic ERatic..demonic autocracy..
doing their automated crazy..CALLED DEMONIC Mockery...[AS THEY WILL].

sinCE THE DAYS OF old..trusted/rusted on
public services CZARS have their GOB IN THE Trough...

BOY..they..do it real tough..
IN THE NEXT LIFE*