Shadow Minister,

The Electorate did not warm to Mr Shorten. Particularly
in Queensland. They saw him as a southern trade unionist
with a green agenda. None of this appealed to regional
Queenslanders who were keen to get the extractive
industries moving to generate blue collar jobs.

Labor's campaign was all about policies. Labor was unable
to counter the effect of the Libs negative campaign. The
Libs attacked the proposals to curb negative gearing
and franking credit rebates - but Labor did not have
a popular leader to sell the policies. It was very much
about - don't trust Bill Shorten.

We'll probably never again see an Opposition go to the
polls with a detailed policy manifesto.

Now back to the topic...

I'll ask you again to discuss what the future is of the
Liberal Party. I have pointed out some of the problems
including their past leadership turmoil. Labor lost the
election and it is the Coalition who are currently in power.
The question is - what do they need to do to reform and
stay in government and more to the point what should they
do with the power that they have been given?

We know that they do have problems (their staff exodus
shows that). Problems do exist.

The stage is yours.

Foxy about two weeks into the campaign it became clear Bill was lead in our saddlebags
Election day, watching workers in their high vis gear snarl and walk past me showed we had about ten percent of our own, disliking him'
No horse wins a race with that much lead in its saddlebags
Poor understanding of policy,poor ability to sell himself by Bill beat us
As long as conservatives think otherwise it is ok by me

Dear Belly,

I still think we live in the best country in the
world - with the best governments anywhere.
No matter who's in power and how much we may
criticise them - our system works. It's done
well by us over the decades.

Of course that's not to say it can't be improved
even further.

where the majority can support themselves, without government handouts at every turn.
Hasbeen,
Agree, but to function like that requires a Govt that provides the foundation for incentive instead of persecuting it ! The Morrison Govt appears to be working towards that but it's one thing to start a race & another to finish it !
I maintain that THE ONLY way is the reintroduction of a National Service scheme. I see no other scheme that could instil the discipline & mentality for people to be reasonable citizens. Drug dependency is definitely not part of it !

Australia is about to become the Unlucky Country, heading down the road of a failed banana republic. There is nothing about Australia that I would say is sustainable, especially population which is double what it should be and its environment which is now being devastated by climate change and overuse.

And therein lies the raison d'etat of those in denial about global warming and its consequential climate change because they need to establish the idea of an eternally sustainable planet to shore up their delusions that we can have endless economic growth and development without any consequences.

Foxy Mr Opinion love what we have, but know we can do better only [in my view] Labor gets reform right [and fair]
I hope and believe a future reforming Labor in power will get it right
So right that after it serves three terms the then Liberals, may actually look at returning to the ground it once owned, away from its march to the right