My thought that bringing back Abbott was shear sarcasm he is now of more value to my party than his, however the thought Turnbulls lead over Shorten in any way points to victory for this government is madness, fully aware of the implications of what I am about to say past winners on both sides presented as the clear leader the country wanted, these two are not seen that way, but policy often hurting the very base of this government,will see this election lost unless a new broom replaces Turnbull, blames him, and drops much of the policy voters are rejecting

Belly,
The problem is that bot ALP & LNP have already imploded so far as competence is concerned.
To vote for either of them has now become sheer madness. Labor has some decent policies as has conservatism. The problem is that our major parties have been infiltrated 7 saturated by academic background people who's mentality is just that, academic Loaded with ignorance on pragmatism. This explains the sad state of australian politics at this stage.

individual,

You are right; neither Liberal nor Labor deserve our votes so, write ‘none of these” on the ballot paper, and vote Australian Conservatives or One Nation in the senate

individual still,, in the end, only those two can ever rule us,I as you would expect, think differently than you BUT can understand and to some extent share, your view the wrong people are getting in to parliament via both our parties, a conga line of upwardly mobile quite up themselves,, is in line to get a seat not near enough just ordinary people who may have been hungry who may have some understanding of what the average person wants and expects, even that being the truth, if you and I sit waiting for that perfect party that will never ever come we ignore surely one of the existing ones ,in our opinion, is better than the other

Sorry for late reply...Arm Chair, its because modern day politics has become a race to the bottom. No election has been won since Ruds victory in 07 and look how he turned out. More to follow just too busy

"By choosing to mimic left-wing and progressive policies and values, the Turnbull Coalition deprives itself of any serious weapons with which to clobber Labor". (From Spectator editorial 4/8).