Well I think Charmers should be a consideration for the leadership.

I had spoken about my dislike of Shorten a number of times on this forum. I think the Labour party had some strong policies but in the end Morrison did what Keating did to Houston over the GST. Go hard on the negative campaigning raising the spectre of huge tax increases via a comsumption tax.

This was despite Keating having been on record as having favoured just such a tax. Howard had to wait a full term before bringing the GST after promising not to in the first. Interestingly Morrison had also been eyeing negative gearing as treasurer but ferociously attacked Shorten over it.

But in the end it was mistrust of Shorten that allowed Clive Palmer's 80 million dollar campaign targeting "Shifty Shorten" and the message "Who do you trust with the economy" to be so effective.

I personally couldn't shake the feeling the Shorten had the potential of doing an Abbott. He always remained behind in the preferred leader stakes and for me it was with some justification. My partner was sympathetic to Labour's policies but really struggled to give him their vote.

I spoke for 20 minutes a couple of days out from the election from someone who had volunteered at our local Lib's office to make calls to electors. He wasn't a party member but just felt he had to do something to may sure Shorten didn't get into office. We got chatting and we actually saw eye to eye on a whole bunch of things yet he just wouldn't have a bar of Shorten.

So my choice for Labour leader would be someone like Jim Chalmers. He is relatively young but experienced, he doesn't have the baggage of someone like Albo or even Tanya, and being a northener he wouldn't have made such a strategic mess of Queensland although Bob Brown certainly did the cause no favours. My second pick would be Bowen.

Well they would be a better choice for Labor than Albanese who sat there like a stunned mullet, muttering "there's a long way to go yet", or Plibersek, who was really struggling not to show how much she despised Julie Bishop.

ensuring privilege stays in the elite upper branches,
diver dan,
That's exactly what I witnessed in the Labor-heavy public service run communities in the North.
Scomo must ensure that the Leftist pushed & perpetuated perception of Conservatives being what in fact is a Leftist trait among the Public Service ranks.
Corrupt & incompetent bureaucrats leading a Tory-kind of life by constantly blaming Toryism for their economic mismanagement mess .
Why can't so many people not see that these parties have literally reversed roles ?

The biggest problem that the new government has is to get our
electricity system into order.
Their problem is they do not a lot of time to do the job.
We have many many years of coal available. However we do have to make
plans to replace it because of world decine in energy return on energy
invested in mining coal. So we have a choice;
We can muddle along using the coal, or we can sell it and make the
money to build nuclear power stations.
It is now becoming clear that we cannot afford to build a power system
built on wind, solar, batteries, pumped hydro and any other variation
all tied together with a high capacity grid covering the whole of
Australia. The basic problem is the amount of multiplication needed to
keep chasing the best weather around the country to obtain a system
with the same reliability and capacity as our previous system.
There seems to be no alternative to nuclear.

The government should appoint a firm of civil engineers to ascertain
which part of the Bradfield scheme should be implemented first.
All the waffle about umpteen other pet schemes must take second place.
In the bin should go all those "woke" projects such as gender fluidity
school climate strikes and "safe" nonsense.
The PM has a short time when he can do those things before the left
has time to reorganise themselves and the senate.

Maybe Labour should offer Malcolm Turnbull the job.

Turnbull gone, Banks gone, Bishop gone, Pyne gone. Maybe with all these regressive gw alarmist gone their is hope for the Liberal party. ScoMo could give Abbott the post Shorten had promised Bishop. Wouldn't that be sweet?