Things are not looking good for Bill Shorten, with any of the following (and more coming up daily) being enough embarrassment for the faceless to dump him:

- Graham Richardson: real reason for Bill Shorten's Adani wobbles.

- Disability groups tell Bill Shorten the Medicare levy increase is fair and have urged Shorten not to play politics.

- Craig Emerson criticises Bill Shorten over 'populist' budget response.

- Criticism at the Labor conference.

- 'Albo' jostling for leadership and now Plibersek.

- Women will not vote for Shorten.

Will Labor's women finally get some courage? What are books on how long?

And all the while rabbott slowly whiteants captain trumble.
What is it now 12/12 losing newspolls. Only 18 to go trumble.
Maybe piggy dutton will get a go before the baseball bats hit this useless government out of the park and into oblivion.

Nice try at deflection Leo, been a bad week for your personal politics with your gal, the lovely Pauline, implicated in a public cash grab scandal orchestrated by her number one string puller James Ashby. The so called champion of public accountability has been missing in action when it comes to doing the job she was elected to do. Hanson has failed to attend a one single Senate estimates hearing since being elected last year, an important function for all Senators when doing their job properly, "Please Explain" Leo, or does Pauline prefer the warm air and tourists sights of Norfolk Island and sunny Queensland instead, where she could be found while others did the hard yards in Canberra for her.

Shorten may be on shifty ground, not that I care, but I would say Turnbull is in quicksand. mikk, good comment on those polls, a ticking time bomb for Money Bags Malcolm. But who's counting? other than the Mad Monk and his nest of white-ants.

Mr Turnbull's big-spending, high-taxing budget has been dubbed a "Labor-lite" budget but earned the backing of Mr Howard on Monday night.
McKim wanted to know whether Trump, having been reported widely to have "blabbed" secret intelligence to Russians visiting the White House, was now considered a security risk. Was the "five-eyes" arrangement still considered by Australia to be stable?
Across at the regional and rural affairs committee, Hanson was relating that she'd been told cattle slaughtered in Australia for halal export markets were having their throats slit while they were alive.
Not quite, public servants from the agriculture department soothed. All cattle were stunned before slaughter, meaning they were unconscious. And inspectors were always on hand.
Senator Hanson huffed a bit and launched a new allegation: cattle on agistment at properties seized by banks were having their tracking tags replaced and sent off for export, she'd been told.
This, Hanson was informed, would be tantamount to cattle rustling. It would constitute a police matter, rather than an estimates hearing matter.
Senator Hanson moved on to what she said was the "not real good" public opinion of the ABC in regards to its fairness, which she said was being "talked about constantly on talk back radio", accusing ABC programs of "targeting" One Nation.
Pauline Hanson later asked Ms Guthrie how the ABC defined "aboriginality" for the positions and whether they "tick a box saying they are aboriginal", seeming surprised it was self-defined.

Leo,

With all the flak that labor directs against the libs about party unity, one almost forgets how tenuous Backstabber Bill's position is. Now that Albanese is openly contradicting him, and there are open conflicts with respect to pre selections, there is a window opening for Albanese to challenge before the elections.

While Paul may huff and puff, the greens are still recovering from their night of the long knives when Crusty Milne got skewered.

Hi Shadow, are you predicting an "AA" contests at the next election? Abbott verses Albanese! Now that would be a 100/1 chance.

Paul is happy with the unity and stability of The Greens. Dr Richard Di Natale is the best party leader in Australia, and we got the double, with Adam Bandt the best deputy leader. I am sure you will be the first to agree, if Leo doesn't beat you to it. If we could bottle our 'unity and stability' we would, and send a few mega liters down to Liberal Party HQ, they sure could use it.

The most distressing thing about the Morrison/Turnbull budget is not that its authors fled in horror from the prospect of defending core values -- you know, quaint concepts such as lower taxes, less government and fewer public servants. No, the real shame is that no one has quit cabinet in protest.

Paul,

The greens deputy leaders are Leaky Waters and Scott Dumdum, after the putsch that killed off Crusty Milne, and gave Adam Bent serious back knife wounds.

Shadow, no matter how you shuffle the seating, The Greens have a tip top united team serving your interests in Canberra. Unlike the front stabbing Liberals, who are more concerned with self preservation than looking after you. Have any of the 15 who got the sack at the last election found jobs yet? Not only does Money Bags have to watch out for the Mad Monk and his band of marauders, then there is the the smiling assassin, the country yokel Barnyard Joyce working with the can't be trusted deputy Bishop,no doubt plotting and scheming Money Bags downfall at this very moment. Just a normal week for the conservatives in Canberra. Throw in your Lovely Pauline and her shockers and you are all set.
Who are you supporting this week for PM, The Mad Monk or Money Bags Malcolm. or as a die hard conservative have you jumped ship and joined the Corny Banana Party.

Goodness gracious Paul1405, where does all of that stuff come from? Please tell say you are on rollies and some 'grass clippings' may have got into the mix.

Paul Keating said recently about the Greens, they are just "a bunch of opportunists and Trots". He could have added 'lunar', but that goes without saying.

Paul,

Suuure!!

Then why are greens meeting sealed off from the press and public?

You have Dinner Tally who rips off his employees,
Syph Hansen Young who enjoys a fact free existence, but horrified at everything,
Wishy Washy Wilson who is an original hipster just like everyone else with the irritating self righteousness of a vegan,
Disease Rhiannon the Mad Marxist,
Germy Buckingham who writes blogs with a factual inaccuracy that would make the inquirer blush,
Leaky waters who get her tits out in parliament,
etc etc, I could go on, all in all a bunch of fruitcakes

I think you have a point leoj.

Not the Greens. Oh no! not ever the Greens. Please! Open borders?
No jobs because every job going ruins the environment in some way or another.

SHY alone is reason enough never to go there. Christine Milne used to terrify me just looking at her. The current leader wants open borders and is always telling us how lovely the Iranians, Sudanese and other runaways from their own countries are.

They're a party of misfits with no policies and no clues.
That is just my personal opinion and I respect the right of anyone who thinks to vote for them. Crazy though I think they must be.

Poor Leo and Co, looks like your pin-up gal Pauline is showing her self serving colors once more. Playing the public for fools, and you to. Now who are the "useful idiots", fancy felling over each other to vote for this female shyster. You would think you mob would have learnt a lesson when you fell over each other to vote for Big Clive! Not so it seems, came back for more with the Lovely Pauline. There is a sucker born every minute.

"A new secretly-recorded phone conversation has emerged of property developer and One Nation donor Bill McNee urging a few "home truths" be delivered to Pauline Hanson about the direction of the party."

Paul 1405,

You prove that Labor did well to lose the troublesome far leftist fringe dwellers to the Greens.

But Shorten wants them back! Mercy!