JF Aus -

Bishop as PM?
Seriously?
The "Shadow Minister for Demanding Apologies"?

One media reporter called her "unbelievably stupid" over starting the diplomatic furor with Indonesia by insisting on the tow-backs to Indonesia "whether that country likes it or not".

She said our refugee camps were "better than mining camps" - a matter disputed by the UNHCR and other groups.

Then there was the fiasco over faked Australian Passports being used by Mossad assassins, by admitting that "everybody does it". Not a clever thing to say about the workings of National Security and international relations generally.

Now, in order to arrange a "Cambodian Solution" she is completely ignoring the current human rights abuses of imprisoned and murdered Cambodian garment workers. The again, her Government has given the Sri Lankan government a gunboat, in spite of international criticism of human rights abuses in that country.

For a Foreign Minister, she doesn't know much at all about diplomacy.

I can't imagine she would have anything to offer as a PM.

If an election was held now Abbott would be out on his ear! according to the latest Galaxy Poll.

Talk about a spectacular nose dive. I was over the Moon when Abbott was elected, believing it would do my side of politics the world of good. I expected this mob to bugger up big time, and therefore enlighten Australia as to what you get with these Wombles. But! I never in my wildest dreams thought they would by as incompetent as they are proving to be, they don't have a brain between them, not one, maybe Turnbull. Unfortunately for Turnbull, given the top job he would have nothing to work with, nothing at all! I though it would take 2 to 3 years to show the Wombles up, but its taken less than 6 months. Imagine if Labor had been on the job for the last 6 months, they would have had the Coalition looking like real fruits. Labor has been missing in action since the election. But it is still amazing,how easily this mob have crashed and burned!

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pyne-defiant-on-dud-poll-result-for-the-government-20140504-zr46j.html

rache,
Oh well, who else?
And why blame JB if it was Abbott that gave the order.
Many media reporters are unbelievably stupid too, like all those pushing CO2 propaganda. It's even stopped people buying their newspapers and magazines.
Indonesia is not perfect, check media today about so many of the Bali bomber mob still not in jail. Indonesia allows economic go-getters into their country and then allows them to sail out to our's.
Refugee camps might be better than mining camps, miners have to paty for accomodation and meals, not so for 'refugee' go-get-rich in Australia opportunists.
A true refugee could get assistance in any Australian Embassy etc in other countries along the way, before reaching Indonesia.
Mossad? National security? Having Abbott there is a national security risk.
I don't know the truth about Cambodia because the media is full of spin and blatant deceit.
About 2 years ago I asked an Australian Syrian what Assad was like, and the reply was, "well he got the Christians and Muslims together".
But that is not what we hear on ABC - SBS 'news', is it?

If Julie Bishop offered decency and honesty, that could be a start we do not have in sight at present.
Anyway, who else is there?

I would agree with Turnbull as PM if he would drop the republic waste of time and money that will not increase development of anything productive, especially exports.

Well JF Aus, I don't know of any mining camps that are behind guarded razor wire where people are murdered and incarcerated indefinitely.

As for Syria, poison gas attacks on civilians will kill both Muslims and Christians so that's fair too I suppose. Did the (so-called) "free" press have a different opinion of Assad?

Behind his public mask of appearing reasonable, Turnbull is just as extreme as Abbott in many ways but trashed his own chances at a re-run because of his own previous mistakes. He got more votes than Abbott at the last leadership spill but not a clear majority. Hockey then withdrew and then Abbott got in by 1 vote. (Peter Slipper's?)

Hockey is probably the only alternative but he's painted himself into a corner with all his previous hypocritical comments about the economy and is proving just as dishonest as Abbott. He'll be the one left carrying the can if things go bad. He can't use the Nuremburg defence ("I was just following orders") but Abbott can theoretically blame Hockey and have him replaced.

That's the Party System at work in an alleged democracy.

Otherwise, we will just have to wait and see what Rupert Murdoch decides for us, when the time comes.

Isn't it laughable how the Left has all but ruined Australia & now that the Coalition is working on repairing it all the lefties are running scared. Are they so callous or stupid (probably both) that they're now biting the hand the fed them & will continue to feed them but with smaller portions from now on. What is it that they can't understand when people say we can't go on like this ?
The bandwagon is slowing & that's all there's to it.