I applaud the ALP for selecting Albo as their next leader, as hard left whinge class warrior I'm sure that he will continue the politics of envy that guaranteed a Liberal government.

"Albanese has always embraced the politics of envy and class-war rhetoric — these are the watchwords of Labor’s hard left faction which he leads.

The notion that Albanese would lead Labor to the centre ground of politics with a cooperative relationship with business is hard to fathom. It is just not who he is.

Just ask the inner-city hard left faction party members he represents who proudly wear their “I Fight Tories” T-shirts. This is Albanese’s personal motto. It has been embraced by the hard left faction.

“Tory” is a class-loaded term to describe the British Conservative Party that has no relevance when describing the Liberal or National parties. This is class warfare reduced to T-shirt slogans.

Labor has to be about more than just fighting their opponents. The party has to actually believe in things. At the election, Labor suffered huge swings against it in seats where there are large cohorts of blue-collar voters and aspirational middle-class voters. These are Labor’s forgotten people and Labor must work out how to get them back.

It is not surprising that Albanese has reached for Bob Hawke’s mantle. He says he wants to lead the party in the Hawke tradition with pro-growth policies based on consensus between business and unions while bringing the country together. Well, who doesn’t?

The problem is that at Labor Party conferences through the 1980s and ‘90s, Albanese and his left faction opposed many of the Hawke government’s economic reforms. As Young Labor president, Albanese often criticised Hawke and Paul Keating. When Labor went into opposition in 1996, many in the hard left faction called for their legacy to be junked.

It is no wonder that Hawke and Keating — and also Gough Whitlam — voted for Bill Shorten rather than Albanese to lead Labor in 2013. Albanese is just not in their mould."

Scott Morrison was an ordinary suburban bloke
who has done an extra-ordinary thing. Winning
the unwinnable election. Scott Morrison has
gone from accidental Prime Minister to homespun
hero of outstanding proportions. He now has
a Liberal Party that owes him everything -
literally.

Albo's no Bob Hawke?
ScoMo was no John Howard either, and look at
what he's achieved almost single-handedly.

Give him time.
He's a good bloke.

Foxy.

The unwinnable election?

I tipped a Coalition win and what's more put money on it.

Just bought myself a Toyota Hilux 2 wheel drive dual cab ute with some of the proceeds.

It's second hand, very low mileage does NOT have power mirrors, power locking doors nor power windows, everything is manual as is the gearbox.

Is Mise,

You lucked out.

Congratulations.

Everybody else thought differently.

How anyone who saw Albanese sitting stunned & bewildered in the Chanel 9 tally room on election night would want him as a party leader, let alone the countries leader in any emergency I find amazing.

The man in that tally room was most definitely not someone you wanted driving the country.

Issy, I hope you didn't back the Shooter and Hooters Party 0.19% of the vote. Obviously the cash from the NRA didn't arrive on time. Terrible result for the far right! Where is the parties news bestest mate Dicko Dickson these days.

//Just bought myself a Toyota Hilux 2 wheel drive dual cab ute with some of the proceeds.// Depending on how much the "some" is, and how new the 'Hilux' is, you would have to put a rather large amount on the Coalition.

p/s Are you tested yearly for a drivers licence? Mate, 2 wheel drive, no self respecting shooter and hooter would be caught dead in a 2 wheel drive, how are you going to do doughnuts in the national park in that thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAv7T1eXtXU