Well Individual, I see we can agree about something anyway, the truly appalling nature of the Opposition, al la Labor, they're only exceeded in their ineptitude and idiocy by the Liberals.
However, that being said, they too are a part of our overall problem, which brings us right back to Miss Wong and her success at being one of them.
Yes, Labor pulled some stunts, good and bad, but the Libs are just as bad, they just play different games is all. At least when Labor blows the dough it gets spread all over the place, but with the Libs it ends up in their mates overseas bank accounts as a rule, so guess which I prefer?
The Canetoad could easily save us all a few quid just by opting out of that ridiculous Fkup35 floppy-fighter deal among others, that alone would save more than his current plans to ream the defenceless amongst us

G'day Bruce,
I maintain that we can't afford another Labor Government for some time however, as you state the Liberals aren't performing either because of the mess they inherited & a lack of care.
All up though it is Labor that got us here. Had Labor not been so abysmally incompetent we would not have this under performing Liberal Government either.
The public service is a Labor machine & is the single most importantant factor in the decline of our political & economic system. The public service is too large, too costly, too incompetent, too selfish, too unethical & lacks integrity. All because of lack of discipline. A non-military national service would re-build this discipline but do Australians want discipline is the big question. My guess is they do they just want everyone else to exercise it it.
I'm convinced it'll still happen in my time when there'll be ads on chinese TV for Australian Mothers for sale !

"....Had Labor not been so abysmally incompetent we would not have this under performing Liberal Government either...."

Lol!

....and the fact the present regime are a lying bunch of incompetents who don't know their arse from their elbow.

Poirot,
Yes & Labor are far worse !

One of the Canetoad's now major problems is that the general public is getting really tired of the endless blaming of Labor. It may have assisted to some degree in helping Labor lose the election but is now well past it's use-by date. Remember, Oppositions DO NOT win elections, Governments LOSE them, an old political truth. It's almost as if the Liberals have got so used to the habit that they are unable to accept that THEY are now the government, they don't need to keep fighting that election any more.
Quick little slogans, whinges and brain-farts may be acceptable from an Opposition, maybe, but they're NOT from a government, we need real actions that advantage ALL Australians, something the Canetoad and his cronies have singularly failed at delivering.
As for the PS, blaming Labor for them is ludicrous, they have existed and been a difficulty for one and all from long before the Labor Party was even formed. Remember those Yes Minister/Prime Minister TV shows? Classic depictions of the genre, and dating from Fraser's time in government but we wouldn't blame him for the PS would we, so why blame labor?
It would appear that the Liberals and their supporters are locked into blaming, everyone and anyone else but themselves, no matter what the discussion and it's as ridiculous and self-demeaning as it is when little kids do it. We train our children not to do it and to accept responsibility for themselves, so who will train the Canetoad and his clumsy, convoluted and chronically cruddish cronies?

Liberals and their supporters are locked into blaming, everyone and anyone else but themselves
G'day Bruce,
No matter how much the supporters of incompetence try to shift the blame, they can not escape the fact that the blame does indeed lie with Labor. The liberals will be locked into this blaming until such time that they can unlock themselves from that dreadful Labor legacy, which is a broke Australia.