Yes well, what can one say Paul, some are just not up to the task and Julia was only trying to score political points by appointing her in the first place. More wasted millions.

As for Malcom (for your benefit) Turnbull, I felt he finally showed some of what he is made of and made Bill out to be a bit of a dill.

I feel Bill finally has a job ahead of him because while many may thing hes been doing well, the truth is Malcom has been doing badly, which has just made Bill look better than he is. He is still a left over back stabber from the RUDD/ Gillard disaster, a union thug who is willingly offering more money, money we simply don't have. But hey, that's the labot way.

Surprisingly though, not a single mention about negative gearing.

How long can you repeat yourself talking negative gearing. Elections are lost not won. And that is precisely what is happening right now.

While Abbott is in politics we will have a change of govt.

He destroyed the Liberal party, single handedly. All major states are turning away from Libs and Abbott.

579 is right.
While the holy Abbott and his Abbott-like disciples are still polluting the Liberal party, poor old Mal won't be allowed to run things the way he wants to....and everyone knows it.

Because Abbott and his fundy groupies are lurking in the background, undermining anything of substance Mal might want to do, good ol' Billy and his union crowd have got much closer than anyone likes at this election time.

Mal needs to come right out and say what he really feels, and bring all the reasonable-minded Liberals with him. Surely the far-right crazies are not that powerful anymore?

Suze, like it or not, the far right crazies as you call them are about our only hope of climbing out of the hole we are in because no amount of talk will solve our problems. We need a dictator of sorts and Mal is no such person as he is a liberal 'wet' as they are referred to.

579, I will bang on about negative gearing until the election, and beyond if this fool Bill gets in because his policy, if introduced, will be the biggest reform undertaken since the introduction of the GST because on the downside it has the potential to decimate the building and housing industries while on the upside it has a slim chance of saving money and increasing housing affordability.

Such a policy should only ever be considered when we are flying high and we are far from that.

As for Abbott's single handed destroying the liberal party, I disagree, he destroyed himself with his arrogance and own goals, but he did abolish the mining tax, he did abolish the carbon tax and HE DID STOP THE BOATS, some thing labor was totally incapable of. And he did so in just six months.

Ask yourself, where would we be right now, with near zero mining and thousands arriving illegally each year?

Also ask yourself, where could we have been if not for the Kevin 07 experiment?

Suse, "Mal needs to come right out and say what he really feels, and bring all the reasonable-minded Liberals with him." What, all three of them!

Butch, "We need a dictator of sorts" and who do you suggest? Mussolini got the trains running on time, my train was 30 minutes late yesterday. Should we all start learning Italian?

Butch, you always prattle on that the sky is falling, when in fact its not. Australia is still very much the "lucky country". like all we have our problems, but in general they can be overcome, as they have been in the past.

All the nonsense about the Labor and Liberal parties is superfluous, essentially their DNA is 99% the same, and in government they operate in very much a similar vain to each other. Mal and Bill remind me of a couple of those phony wrestlers of yesteryear, who climb into the ring and pretent to hate each others guts, but back stage are patting themselves on the back, and having a tinny or two together, "You sure fooled em' today Bill!"..."You too Mal, well done!"

I'm not complaining, I like most Australians have done well out of the system. In fact come this election my preference will go to the Liberal candidate, I like him more on social issues than the incumbent Labor bloke. No probs all's good.

Butch the scare monger, All that doom and gloom comes straight from Abbott's lie campaign.

So what have liberal achieved over the last 3 years. Abolished the mining tax and since then the mining has gone down hill. Not to mention that the mining tax never raised any money. So what was the point.

Abolition of the carbon price which left us 6 b $ worse off. And no drop in power prices.

Abbott destroying 30,000 car industry jobs. A remarkable achievement. They certainly have the score on the board.

100 B$ in more debt. Fantastic.

So why should people give liberal another go. So they can fully destroy medicare, Turn schools into paying concerns, Put 50 % on GsT, and close hospitals at 10 PM.

Abbott destroyed the Liberal party with his Campaign designed on lies, he would do anything to get power and he did. Mal will pay the penalty for Abbott