Paul1405,

There are as many factions in the Greens as there are members and then some.

Bob Brown had his problems with Lee Rhiannon and the Trots 'Watermelon' Greens faction in NSW. The 'Watermelon' faction remains an embarrassment and a thorn in the side of Richard Di Natale.

Beach, I see ignorance is still no barrier for you posting ill-informed comment. Greens this, Greens that, when in fact you probably know as much about The Greens as I know about astrophysics, which is zilch!

The lament of the forums heartbroken rabid right, where is the messiah, he hast gone, please come back Tone, we need you, the world needs you! The bloke was such a embarrassment even his own party dumped him before the people could deliver the coup de grace on poor Tony.

But, and its a big but, for the Tony loving forum members, there is still hope that your pin-up boy could indeed make a return to the top job sometime after the election. The rabid right faction of the Liberal Party spent years wrestling control of the party from the small l moderates, how do you think Tony got the top job in the first place, they knew he was a clown, but he was one of them, their clown.
The majority of Liberal members are still supporters of Abbott's conservative style of politics, as are nearly all the National Party members. They only supported Turnbull because they could see the writing on the wall, and self preservation kicked in. The conservative controlling faction have made it clear to Turnbull and his minority faction, that they are not going to support the Turnbull political agenda, he can remain PM as long as he doesn't try and implement his reform policies, particularly on social justice issues. The only way Turnbull can hold sway is if he has a resounding victory at the forthcoming election, and that would silence his critics within, a most unlikely event.
Abbott only has to sit and wait for a narrow Turnbull win and then continue to destabilise and do a Rudd, make a comeback. However I think Morrison might have a better chance than Abbott of being the conservatives next anointed one.

otb,

Lol!....who's calling his fellow posters "automatons"

This is the poster who serially presses his auto-blather button and comes out with a spiel which goes something like this:

"feminists, progessives, Marxists, Trotskyite, femi-nazi, leftist, Fabianism, International socialism, Emily's List, Grrls, womyn...etc"

It's a sight to behold when "onthebeach" goes automaton - just like watching an old movie that you've seen oodles of times - and you know which piece of dialogue is coming up next.

Snort!

But I have to say, Tony Abbott is proving almost as entertaining as a "backbencher" as he was as PM.

He's by far Labor's greatest asset in the coming campaign.

A true unstable pretender, nary a day goes by when he's not publicly undermining his leader in some way...you can almost set your watch to it these days

What a blast!

His latest stunt in announcing his own faux Prime Ministerial election tour (because his own party declined him one of theirs) is pure vaudeville.

Popcorn....

Ross Gittins is the Sydney Morning Herald's
economics editor. He writes:

"We wouldn't be onto our fifth PM in 5 years if
federal politics wasn't dominated by moral pygmies.
People lacking in courage who see tactics but not
strategy. Whose only vision is of their own
survival in their seat and their progression up the
Party pecking order."

That's a rather depressing thought.

Gittins reminds us that -

"What the pygmies don't see is that the public can smell
politicians and parties who put their careers ahead of
serving the nation. What few people in Canberra remember
is that Bob Hawke and Paul Keating achieved greatness by
making changes they believed the nation needed but their
own supporters hated."

Gittins warns that - " Malcolm Turnbull will never be great
if he takes his political advice from pygmies."

Let us hope that Turbull is smarter then that.

cont'd ...

Did anyone watch "Q and A." last night?
(Monday, 28 March 2016).

It was an interesting discussion, particularly
the moments dealing with innovation.
The Hon. Wyatt Roy MP - Assistant Minister for
Innovation performed very well.