Unemployment is guaranteed of running rampant. With the three car makers pulling out Vic is set to lose 100,000 jobs and the rest of au another 100,000 between the states. And leave a black hole of 40 billion $ in the economy. The latest study finds.
The libs so far have only done window dressing, the urgency has faded away, and now Hockey is going to create his own urgency. Abbott has demised all but one of his grand promises, and that is to give enormous amounts of welfare to the ones that don;t need it.
So far from this govt; what we have seen is changing situations to a more lib friendly environment

Polls are a hit and miss a the best of times, because it really relies on who the pollsters are targeting.

I say this because my brother was contacted once, Pre September election and, once he gave his age they hung up, as they were obviously targeting the younger voters.

Regarding the question of polls - I agree that these
should on the whole be taken with a pinch of salt.
It does depend
on the questions being asked. People will often
express opinions on subjects they know nothing about.
People also often give false information - and so on.
However, political parties do pay attention to the polls,
and we've seen leaders being replaced because of polls.
However, to totally ignore the climate in the country - would
be unwise.

I watched "Q and A," last night. It was quite interesting.
The panel this time was made up entirely of women - and
to me at least one of the most surprising panelists was the
Palmer United Party's MP from Tasmania. She was a delight.
Inexperienced - yes, but she spoke honestly - and was a
refreshing change from the usual Party rhetoric. She also
made it quite clear that they do have a majority in the
Senate - so it looks like there will be interesting times
ahead.

Lets not make excuses Butch. The situation is they are not seen as a good choice, 7 months and nothing but blame the other side. Because they don,t have a puppet senate, they say nothing.

Foxy,

I came away with a completely different impression of Jackie Lambie.

She was in totally out of her depth - and the only time her rhetoric seemed to coalesce was when she was spouting the cliched party line.

Her spiel on AGW was appalling. She knows next to nothing on the subject (as does her boss)and spoke like a 6 year-old on the subject.

All in all her appearance was full of vacuous blather although I'll award her some points for trying to appear knowledgeable on subjects on which she has scant knowledge.

God help us if someone like her has control of the Senate.

Foxy - Quote "I regularly probably like so many voters watch the various news programs, read the papers, read various opinions, and try to make sense of our current political scene."

Your comment explains why on nearly every issue you are at odds with the majority of people on this forum.

You have admitted you get your views from the MSM which are totally biased.

Time after time the MSM have been proven to just be the mouthpiece of the Government or controlling editors with an agenda that is at odds with what the majority of people on this planet would want.

Your views are influenced by the 1% elite through there propaganda arm the MSM.

Try using common sense how many times have you read something in the MSM that with the passage of time it turned out to be outright lies, does that not tell you something?