Rehctub you are too kind.

The only sight of Turnbull I will ever welcome is the sight of his back, complete with hat & coat, leaving the building for the last time.

It shows just how bad he is, when a Green would give him his preference rather than their sister ratbags, Labor.

I guess my vote for Labor this election will bring back equality. If we are gong to be ruled by ratbags it might as well be the originals, rather than a weak copy.

579, $50,000 PER WORKER, that's the number you should remember because that's the amount each worker on the floor was costing the tax payer within the car industry. So tell me, how was that a sustainable industry?

Suse,

"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?"

Lol!....Mal appears to be having a cracker of a time representing the "far-right crazies". Every move he makes, every breath he takes, is representative of the the far-right element of the LIbs.

The only reason he was allowed to boot Tones is that he agreed to continue the far-right IPA agenda.

Why can't you see that?

And even if you do think he's being held hostage by the LNP apparatus, how can you laud a bloke so lacking in principle that he'd sell his soul for the top job?

He either believes in far-right ethos - or he's a miserable unprincipled, do-anything elitist whose only ambition was to scrabble to the top.

And rehctub, tell me how largesse to big-business is going to help Australians get jobs?

"The investment bank once chaired by Malcolm Turnbull has backed the view that much of the benefit from the Coalition’s company tax cuts could flow to offshore investors..."

"...in an economic research note, Goldman Sachs found that if companies distributed the value of the tax cut as profits or dividends to investors then 60% of the benefit would flow to offshore investors, 10% to domestic investors and around 30% to the Australian economy."

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/01/goldman-sachs-analysis-of-company-tax-cut-finds-benefits-would-go-offshore?CMP=share_btn_tw

I'm sure Suse really enjoys the aspects of cuts to health and education when she knows the govt's prority is to funnel billions to offshore investors - great stuff!

What a shonky outfit is the LNP - whether it's led by Magnificent Mal or Shirtfront Tones.

There is no second prizes to be had. Abbott was a terrorist lying in wait, the citizens seen the danger in him and the rest is history.

Mal has done nothing, very disappointing, not even his ambitions for a second term. He is just letting time move bye.

So Mal is disillusioned, about what i can not remember, no mention of whatever it was that caused his disillusionment. I believe it to be instructions for an election from the far right faction. They did not want to take the budget to an election, after it had been explored is my guess.

Abbott started with a blistering start and now has faded into oblivion. The electorate has made up its mind on this one.

Hasbeen,

I am intrigued....

Why, when Mal has been bending over backwards to ambush health and education, hand big business tax cuts and basically continue with LNP far-right policy - are you so disapproving?

Apart from the chest-beating and flag-waving, he's almost identical to Abbott.

Sheesh! - we even had an AFP raid regarding the NBN during an election campaign!

Albeit, he's still waffling and not really saying anything except "jobs and growth" ad nauseam - his Treasurer is a blithering idiot - and now to appease their buddies, they're intimating they'll sort out super "after" the election...but...but why don't you like Mal? His govt is barely removed from Abbott's as far as policy is concerned.

Btw, rehctub, despite this govt cutting hundreds and hundreds of programs, slicing foreign aid, etc - its average level of spending over its term of govt has been equivalent to Labor's spending during the aftermath of the GFC - and only "then" was it at the present level.

With no GFC and no stimulus happening!

Why is that?

Hey everyone,
I need some good Aussie background music for this comment.
I'm going with Talking Heads 'Road To Nowhere' and 'Burning Down The House'.

I think we're is in a downward spiral and ultimately done for unless we radically change course, and although I truly do care about our future there's a voice in the back of my head saying 'Why bother, it wont make any difference anyway'.

I'd even go as far as saying that I don't think democracy is capable of saving us.

1/ The system we built isn't sustainable.
We cant have free base level healthcare and education without a system ensuring people are being productive to pay for it.
Welfare recipients vote for more welfare and politicians pander to them, the systems broken and was never built sustainably in the first place.

2/ Left wing craziness is our society collapsing under our feet.
Maybe democracy only works for so long and then society begins to implode from too much liberal ideals against backdrop of a divided multiculturalism.
There's no voice of sanity strong enough to silence the left wing nutters who will always attack and derail any sensible move forward.
University activists are spoilt rich kids who choose this craziness as the form they take to rebel against their parents - whilst living with them into their 30's and telling everyone else how to live.
They probably don't even pay their HECS debts or complete their studies anyway, too busy with left wing causes and activism.

3/ I believe in freedom and liberty for all but I don't think Islamic extremism can be dealt with through equality and democracy.
They laugh at our laws and only follow the word of Islam.
How can we assume to have a undivided nation under these conditions?
How do we fight against a divine entity when we promote equality and freedom of religion?
Islam will bring Terrorism; will bring a Police State, more costs to taxpayers, more regulation and diminished freedom on our streets.

You people are all living on hopes and dreams, and its time to be realistic.