Talking about sensationalising headlines ...

The Malcolm Turnbull sideshow of last month - comes to mind.
With Mr Bolt and Mr Jones being the prime movers.
The Sydney Morning Herald tells us in one of their
Opinion pieces last month that:

"The Turnbull sideshow was a diversion engineered
predominantly through the Murdoch Press to deflect
attention from the failed budget. However both Bolt
and Jones are simply irrelevant these days because
being a friend of Tony Abbott is not couched in
reality. It doesn't carry a lot of clout with the
voting public at the moment."

We need to ask - why has it taken only 10 months
for the Coalition to go from electoral triumph to
internal discontent. Clearly the catalyst is the budget
based on a stream of broken promises.

Coalition members partticularly in marginal seats know
that the electorate is disillusioned. The discontent
rumbling through the party is only just beginning.
Mr Abbott's lack of respect for the electorate will
end up being his downfall. As it was with Kevin Rudd
before him. Both failed to make the transition from
opposition leader to government. The parallels are
uncanny.

Hi SteeleRedux, thanks for the informed comments re Australia Post, a Postal Services Officer is on less than $23/hour, and is required to do a lot more than "sell stamps" and cop public abuse. Box sorters get even less. My local "postie" told me he walks over 20km/day in all weather, sorry knocks off when the mercury hits 42c. Parcel delivery contractors would be lucky to make $20/hr after expenses. Not one employee of AP is classed as a public servant.
My son is a public bus driver, yep a public servant. from what he tells me I wouldn't touch that job with a barge pole, not for about $65k gross pa including o/t. Works 6 days a week on average, rotating roster, drives in peak hour city traffic with a full load of "cattle", puts up with all sorts of abuse, can work any hours, broken shifts etc, 7 days of the week. You don't know what people are like until you have to deal with the general public, as my son says 99% of people say "thank you driver" when they get on, and "thank you driver" when they get off, he don't worry about the other 1% of ratbags.

<<It is all about the NSW 'Watermelon' Greens poaching Labor-voting public servants isn't it?>> Isn't it what? Beach, I can honestly say I have never ever attended a Greens meeting where "poaching Labor voting public servants" has been an agenda item. I must have missed that one! Were you there?
<<Gillard was right to say that the Greens is just a protest party.>> Beach, according to people such as yourself, Gillard was an habitual liar, so why would you choose to believe that statement. Such a claim would not be unexpected, Gillard as Labor leader would have been dismayed at the loss of voter support for her party. I would think she would be duty bound to make such a call in the hope it might in some way stem the voter flow away from Labor to the Greens. Unfortunately for Labor the flow of voters to The Greens is relentless.
<<Bob Brown was never in favour of the Trotskyist NSW Greens 'Watermelon' faction.>> Just for a moment, I'll assume there exists this "Trotskyist" NSW faction within The Greens, which there isn't as they all ran off years ago, and joined the Spartacist League, who morphed into the Socialist Alliance, or some such organisation. Did you get that from Bob's mouth, or did it come to you in a flash of bewilderment when talking to you very own Miss Marple about those nasty Fabian people. Beach, which is it to be, Bob or Miss Marple?

Given that most important correspondence arrives by email, I would be happy with just one Australia Post paper mail delivery a week. As it is, I pay Australia Post for a Post Office box and only clear it about once a week. About all that ends up in the box in front of my home is junk mail, from people who ignore the "No Junk Mail" sign.

What is more annoying are courier companies which don' deliver to a PO Box, so I then have to make special arrangements for collection. There are now at least two parcel boxes for homes to get around this: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/04/my-parcel-box-drops-fees-from-home.html

Australia Post also has their electronic lockers for those who do not have a PO Box: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/03/australia-post-lockers.html

least we forget
the most valible by weight=a postage stamp
worth 4 billion/cause its the only one
how much proffit/once they own the printing print error run
plus the archived plates and philitalc wealth/its VALUE IS HUGE

BUT UNDER CAPITALIST HANDS
greed needs be reigned in

once a week/means a letter box deliveRY=GETS 10 BUCKS
CAuse he got the lowest quote

still i like the look of the electric postie bike
YOUR MISSING THE POWER OF A DAILY DELIVER SERVICE[for everything*]

one mob doing it street by steet once a day
home delivery/going cheap/blink and that cash flow and job=gone

to some capitalist stooge/with nothing to loose but over printed yanki paper and jap paper/bying up asset before hyperinflation ,eans your saving value is gone

STOP THIS HUGE HIGH TREASON
their selling the royal mint/like they gave away the commonwealth and the federal reserves/water/powr/telicommunications [and worse dumbed our kids down

but we get the leaders /or\rather looters
we deserved