Shadow Minister I have never doubted you are an intelligent person
Not for a second
But believe you are well out of balance and understanding about politics
I offer you this as proof I am not so, your mob is about to be trashed
Abbott, he beat Gillard, she should never have copped the trash talk she did
She lost because she was a woman,Rudd,s return was far too late
Gillard betrayed my party
She had help
Abbott was is and always will be the lost child of the Catholic right
He was and is radical, he may well do a John Howard and get kicked out
No reason to deny the NSW Greens are buggered

Paul1405,
You're exposing yourself as a redneck !

Dear Shadow Minister,

You wrote;

"That Abbott won a general election in a landslide shows that certainly at one point he was far closer to the center than the greens or even labor."

Give it away mate.

Abbott before the election;

"no cuts to the ABC or SBS"

Abbott after the election;

"This promise was broken when the Government announced cuts to the ABC worth $35.5 million over four years in the 2014-15 budget, as well as announcing the termination of the ABC's Australia Network contract, saving the Government $197 million over nine years. Further cuts of $254 million over five years were announced in November 2014, and smaller ones in the 2016-17 budget.
ABC Fact check

What he told the Australian people and what his real intentions were are completely different. He was never a centrist.

Steele redux,
I don't understand you, cuts to the ABC are in the best interest of australian society

Indy, you were never a Labor voter, judging by your rabid conservative posts, like this one //cuts to the ABC are in the best interest of australian society//. From your ideological view point you would believe that to be true. What you want is for all "news" to be censored, and in the hands of a hard line conservative like the yank Murdoch. With a hard line conservative media all "news" would be simply doled out for public consumption, ensuring it was not critical of the Coalition, and it attacked Labor at ever opportunity. Just as the Murdoch gutter press does now

Dear individual,

You wrote;

“I don't understand you, cuts to the ABC are in the best interest of australian society”

Only if you are a Mudoch stooge mate. Now I get why Abbott and the Libs were such, and why they tore up media ownership restrictions, and why they fatally hamstrung the NBN, because they were paid handsomely to do so either by direct political donations or by favourable political coverage.

You however are doing it all for free.

Gawd strewth man you must realise surely what a bleating, mindless, sycophantic sheep you have been reduced to.

Well being on all fours might make it easier to service Rupert but don't you think you should stand up and look out for your countrymen rather than some foreigner who cares very little about this country aside from what profit he can pull from it.

I'm not a big fan of Shorten by any measure, but he gained a few brownie points by snubbing old Rupert during a recent visit to NY.

How about it.