Poirot, "I guarantee any Labor shadow minister could stack up against the govt interchange bench.."

First, your attempts at blokey language (what for?) always fail. You are ignorant of the meaning of 'interchange bench'. I am sure your intention was to disrespect the PM and Ministers. In that case they could hardly be referred to as an 'interchange bench' because the ball is already in their hands.

Secondly, L'il Willie Shorten and his shadow ministers are recycled from the Rudd and Galah'd+treacherous Greens sidekicks governments. To use the Aussie vernacular, they have already been given the 'Big A'(sl) by the electorate and were thrown out of office.

Labor's own exasperated members have been calling for Shorten to come up with some alternative policies.

It isn't just Shorten who has been on cruise mode and enjoying the easy life, his whole shadow front bench are damned lazy and focussed on their own entitlements. They are not worth the very high salaries and international travel they enjoy.

NO policies to speak of. No action to boot the union heavies, the CFMEU and others out of Labor. Just idiotic time-wasting obstructionism and bastardry in Parliament. All jeers and challenges to the Speaker.

They need a jolly good boot to their behinds and some real work to do ie., get a real job.

The past that you would have Australia return to,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MHRSFz6FM

otb,

"First, your attempts at blokey language (what for?) always fail..."

Lol! - what's that supposed to mean?

"....You are ignorant of the meaning of 'interchange bench'. I am sure your intention was to disrespect the PM and Ministers. In that case they could hardly be referred to as an 'interchange bench' because the ball is already in their hands."

Yes it was my intention to disrespect the rabble on the govt's rapidly altering front bench. You appear to be the one who doesn't understand the term. Whenever a minister runs out of puff, gets caught in a naughty encounter in a nightclub, happens to be served by the AFP, takes personal holiday's to China to sign up companies on behalf of the govt, accepts Rolexes because he thinks they're fake, tries to jump parties because he got booted from the ministry - or just retires because he's up for a confected position at the UN - whichever of those it may be - the govt interchange bench will send in another to replace him on the front-bench field.

Chris Bowen could out-gun race-caller and well-known moronic-mutterer, Morrison, in his sleep in fiscal policy, for a start.

What about the laughable shambles that was the $80 million cooked-up TURC, with its biased matey Heydon at the the helm...and its pathetic non-findings at the end.

"All jeers and challenges to the Speaker."

The Speaker!....yeah that went well initially.

And now Bronnie's in Abbott's sights because she turned on him....strange isn't it that all those folks who sided with Turnbull in the spill have run aground since. AFP questioning Brough, Roy and Pyne.

There's disunity in fed LNP ranks - and Abbott dead set he's going to have another pop at the top job sometime ahead.

Perhaps you should be offering advice to the LNP about getting their house in order, and not slinging off at other parties

Poirot, Shorten and his gang have no real policies at all that I can recall.
Labor has nil to no chance at winning the coming election on what the electorate have seen from them so far. And the stench of union corruption follows closely behind Shorten no matter how hard he hides.

As far as I am concerned, as long as our local National Party representative continues to deliver 'Royalties For Regions' to our country areas, I will continue to vote for them.

I remain pleased that Turnbull is the PM rather than both Abbott or Shorten.
I would hate to see Morrison in the top job as I dislike his aggressive form of politics.
He annoys me almost as much as Abbott did, but at least he can speak well in public, even if I don't like what he says..

So be it, Suse...

I tended to figure that a commentator like youself would look beyond the News Corp headlines. Have you even bothered to listen to Bowen's take on negative gearing?

One presumes not - you appear to be mouthing the generic LNP line.

TURC was a dismal failure - in the end it came down to whatever Heydon decided was a potential bogeyman...all supposition and vague accusations.

Did you note that?

On this thread you are championing a govt which has no fiscal policy. You say you don't like Morrison, yet he is the linchpin of the fabulous Turnbull govt - and he's a man who appears to have very little knowledge of fiscal policy. Hes an economic dolt. A journo asked him if he was a "Keynesian" some time back. Morrison replied that he was an "Australian".

I rest my case.

What does this mean?

"Labor has nil to no chance at winning the coming election on what the electorate have seen from them so far."

I'll tell you what it means.

It means people such as yourself can't see past Marvellous Mal. They write off Labor with hackneyed put-downs without examining the policy they're rubbishing.

And if the Coalition wins the next election it will because of just such wiffly-waffly voter intentions which look straight past the govt's continuing far-right policy agenda and focus on the guy with the nice suit, the charming smile and the eloquent waffle.

Good luck with that!

I'll just add, Suse, that I recall you telling us before the last election that you thought you might vote for the Coalition because of their Paid Parental Leave policy...because your daughter was considering having a baby.

I was a bit surprised at thie time, but figured you were a swinging voter who was looking out for your own - which you were.

Well... this far down the track, after a slew of Abbott lies to win govt and the eventual demise of his PPL, we all know where that went.

Abbott didn't lie to win govt by himself - he was backed by the entire LNP juggernaut.... (including Turnbull - who has publicly stated many many times that he's right behind every govt policy)

So the upshot is that it has been demonstrated time and time again on almost their entire 2013 agenda - that they lied and conned to win govt....and for that, you think they're a great bet to return to govt.

Poirot,

You are shamelessly one-eyed and unreasonable in your sledging of Fox and Suseonline.

You deny them the right to think and speak for themselves. You scoff and demand that they be 'ladies'. Presumably all 'ladies' are automatons who are supposed to follow the Top Dog, yourself!

It is ridiculous and immature of you to claim that one side is all good and the other, irredeemably nasty.

Most would say that the differences between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott are real, but you are too poisoned against the LNP to spot the changes in emphasis that others applaud.

If politics is the art of doing the possible, then the successful, entrepreneurial businessman Turnbull is easily proving he has what it takes in politics too.

The posters you criticise are far more convincing in their support of MT than you are in your carping, vexatious, knee-jerk opposition.

Is Turnbull better than Shorten? You bet he is, if he were the Labor leader (and some say he ought be), MT wouldn't be allowing union heavies to dominate Labor and yes, he would definitely be implementing changes to Labor to restore rights and democracy for the members. Shorten is gutless. Who trusts Shorten to represent them? No-one outside of the union heavies who pull his strings. Think of those poor union members who thought that the union subs they couldn't really afford were being applied for their benefit.

MT is not really my cup of tea, but that is another matter.