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.