There is no doubt the country has some serious problems and issues that need resolving. The current situation in the Senate is unacceptable and the inability of the major political party's to ever work together for the betterment of the Nation is appalling.

Tony Abbott's alienation of just about everyone in the country is only matched by the hated Rudd/Gillard time in office. Labor was the first party to dump its sitting Prime Minister/s and was heavily criticised for such action, yet realistically it had to be done (both times).

The Labor Opposition is calling for Abbott's head. The Coalition's only hope of staying in power, come the next election, is to dump Abbott as soon as possible and then move on. If they dump Abbott now they still have time to revisit their priorities and build trust with the people. If they wait until an election is eminent, they will suffer the same fate as Labor.

Personally I believe we don't need another Labor government in power for many years to come. A Coalition Government is our only hope of repairing the economy and maintaining control of the borders.

Abbott has to go; no if's, and's or but's about it!

My question to Labor is - "If the Coalition were to dump Abbott, will Labor start behaving less partisan or will it only use the sacking as fodder to keep undermining the Government's ability to perform?" Sadly I suspect the latter, going on the current track record.

Why do you say the senate is unacceptable, the senate says Abbott’s proposals are unacceptable. We know Abbott’s track record is not ‘just’.
He has proven he cannot run a viable govt; so what are you proposing.
The LNP have policy problems, or is that Abbott and Credlin have policy problems. You decide. Nobody wants or needs radical policy, that would shift the structure of life as we know it.

The recent debacle over medical and funding for university was no more than a con. The savings were to be channeled into a future fund for his medical science. We were told that we can’t afford medicare or the amount of uni; funding.

This govt; has been deceitful right from the election results, as planned by Abbott.

So I don’t know how you blame the senate, maybe you would be happier with a stacked senate. Abbott promised a DD election, So what happened.

Conservativehippie,

"The Labor Opposition is calling for Abbott's head...."

Now that's where you're wrong.

Why would Labor want to see the back of Abbott. The PM is making such a hash of Coalition governance that he's a gift.

It's the govt ministers and backbenchers who are more likely to be calling for Abbott's head - being that every other day Abbott drops a debacle in their laps.

And lets, face it, the Senate is not there to rubber stamp anything that Abbott decides to spring on the populace - much of his legislation wasn't even hinted at prior to the election.

And talking of partisanship, have you checked out Bronnie Bishop in the Speaker's Chair...now there's a 24 carat partisan operative!

Bit of history revision going on here.

I seem to remember a time when John Gorton was dumped as Prime Minister in favour of Billy McMahon in 1971.

Agronomist,

Yes, but under the present circs and with the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd merry-go-round a recent memory - and much lampooned by the then LNP Opposition, one can understand why they would not wish to imitate Labor's effort.

Problem is Abbott appears to be a dud in govt - going out of his way to make a hash of things - repeatedly?

What can you do with someone like that? When Coalition members can see there is now a real possibility that this govt may be a one termer. That would have been impossible to think when they won govt.

Go on. Do it. Sack him. Knife him in the back.

Then the lieberals will be in exactly the same position Labor were in after they sacked rudd.
They will deserve, and get, the exact same treatment they dished out to Labor.

They chose rabbott for their leader. They knew what he was like. They wholeheartedly supported his destruction of any possibility of bipartisanship. They adored his spiteful attacks on Julia Gillard. They applauded, and assisted, in his lies about the carbon tax, the mining tax, the deficit "emergency", the "invasion" of refugees.
They deserve nothing less than what they themselves found so pleasurable not so very long ago.

Maybe after the lieberals have been flayed in the polls, the media and the ballot box, the way Labor were, will they learn the idiocy of electing leader a brain-dead fool like tony abbott. Maybe then they will learn the value of cooperation occasionally. The meaning of bipartisanship and doing the best for the country, not your rich mates all the time. Maybe once they get rid of rabbott and his team of tea partiers they can go back to being the party of Menzies and Fraser. Hardly my cup of tea but infinitely better than the current bunch of lieberal party thieves and liars.

Until then Labor and the Greens should give them no quarter and use every vile and sneaky method of the lieberals against them.
And laugh as we watch them scream their hypocritical outrage.