Dear Belly,

I'm sure that Daniel Andrews will win in Victoria.
He's a popular Premier and is doing a great job.

This mornings polls and the news Hanson has withdrawn from campaigning one week out, make these elections even more interesting. we should not ignore polls, even those known to be not trustworthy, however we should not put too much credence on the slant some put on when reporting them, after all they are a mirror in to what voters are thinking, my prediction remains, Labor will win the Queensland seat, if however it does not the impacts on Labor will have us talking for weeks why has Hanson taken this important time off? is she ill? has she got private polling we have not seen?that too will be a subject we hear much about after these elections, I can not recall any party leader leaving like this

Mark Latham's one nation?

Mark Latham. Wasn't he the one who was elected and led the Labour party. Probably the best leader they had in the last 25 years eh Belly? I mean Rudd, Gillard, Shorten and now Turnbull.

Loathsom Latham rode in to the Labor leadership as a fraud, both sides have them, he fooled even himself, for a short time, maybe he did have a brain explosion,my view was he never had one, election day I set up a country booth shook hands at 5 to 8am with the country party Captain and congratulated them on a landslide victory about to come, my side young full of hope but uniformed, sent me home, bottle of Bundy helped with the pain that night,whatever Hansons reason her act is just weird, but what if Mark asked her to? just maybe yet another in a long line of failed idiots has joined the party of xenophobics?

Dear Belly,

I remember reading that Margaret Whitlam tried to
warn her husband about Mark Latham. She found him
to be "unbalanced." And she wasn't wrong.

Latham was a former protege of Gough Whitlam.
However, Gough's wife stated that Whitlam would probably
go to his grave before Latham would ring him after
Latham lost the election. Latham did have a meltdown
as we saw and Margaret was right. Latham's behaviour
then and since can only be described as "unbalanced."