Let's recap. Julia Gillard....plunged us in to a debt position we will most likely never recover from, or at least kept the good efforts of Kevin 07 going strong. Anna Bligh... played a huge role in crippling QLD. Julie Bishop.... what a joke. Plenty of tax payers money to go round, well, borrowed on behalf of the tax payer, just not to be spent on us. Yep, I can see why we need more. The point is we need strong people to lead, regardless of their gender. Wanting to balance the books on gender is simply a distraction we can not afford to have, because unless you have resided under some rock for the past 11 or so years, we have gone from ZERO DEBT to something like SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY BILLION. Short of a modern day dictator taking the reins, we are doomed, and no amount of gender balancing will have any effect on the inevitable.

But then again, most of you still think just turning up for work should be reason enough to be paid a living wage, and productivity comes a distant second. Any wonder we are in such a mess.

Butch,

You should get down on your hands and knees everyday and thank those poor underpaid workers of yours for keeping you in the life of luxury you have become accustomed to. If things do get too tough, then you can always sack the Butler, and if need be, the upstairs maid as well! Cut the annual holiday to the Bahamas from four weeks to three, a cost saving right there.

If cash is a problem, how about downgrading the Sunday drive, flog the Rolls, and get a Bentley.

Paul, who's Butch?

rehctub,

Isn't it amazing how you can do something good, provide jobs and a service to the public, and still be lambasted by the loony Left, most of whom had to work for a boss because they didn't possess the enlightened self-interest that makes the money and prosperity go round. Good on you!

Paul, for the record, I have several Rolls Royces and Bentleys, so selling one or two won't bother me at all. No seriously. I would just like to know how that would affect my lifestyle? I imagine I would have more cash, thereby making my lifestyle better, would it not? Oh also I have had no need for a butler or a maid. Although I did have a driver for a few years. Trying to get parking close to where I was going, in the city was impossible, so the need for a driver. Still don't know who Butch is.