I'll also repeat what I wrote to Shadow Minister
earlier.

The Electorate did not warm to Mr Shorten. Particularly
in Queensland. They saw him as a southern 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 Liberal's negative fear campaign.
The Liberals 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.

Yes. nobody is denying that the Libs won the election.
However, what needs to be examined is will they be able to
stay in power and what should they do to ensure that, and how
should they use their power now? Obviously problems exist
as we've seen from the leadership turmoils, and the exodus
of many capable and talented people. Labor would have
learned their lesson. Will the Liberals have learned theirs?

Liberal's negative fear campaign.
Foxy,
Why is telling facts a fear campaign ? Facts such as Labor can't manage is not pushing fear, it's a well known fact ! The Coalition is not much better but better they are & that's what matters to people.

Dear individual,

Talking about your Coalition govt, wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall at the AUSMIN Summit?

To me it looks like the US is calling in its chips and wanting ScuMo to make a choice about whether he stands with the US or China in what could be a major military confrontation looming between the two as tensions escalate over their struggle to control the global economy.

Do you think ScuMo will give the nod for the US to deploy missiles in Australia or do you think he will let them know that Australia has a Chinese future?

There is no reason why the average person would care about about 'the Liberal party and its future', particularly as about 40% of them wouldn't even bother to vote if they weren't forced to. Young people are markedly disinterested in politics. You might as well ponder the future of any political party. However, we know that this question is being asked by a Lefist - so far left that she imagines that the Liberal party is controlled by the sinister Right. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, given the leadership of Turnbull and now Morrison, and the party branches, particularly in the Eastern states; West of the Blue Mountains, you wouldn't know that there are any branches. In SA, the Liberals are so wet, that Pauline Hanson has decided that it is well worth her while to register One Nation in the state ready for the next state election.

The Liberal party is just another collection of self-serving politicians, little different from the other bunch: their only 'pride' lying in the gradually disappearing, slightly less than Labor, screwing of the population via the climate fraud, increases in energy prices, loss of jobs, globalisation and 'free' trade. On mass immigration, kowtowing to the UN, and freedom of speech, there is no difference. The accidental Prime Minister's only interest in free speech is it 'doesn't create a single job'.

What is needed is not one-sided bigotry like this thread represents; we need to start looking hard at all the parties and politicians stuffing up our country, before we end up with a leader like the PM' friend, President Xi

Foxy and others valuing truth so here it comes ,my work in the federal election was not as intense as in the states one
I got ripped off, money owed was not then paid, near a pension check [person not party]
I got it, with help, but would have as it was wrong
I never TRULY let on my doubts about Bill, many would have heard me even seen in print, my view he was not the brilliant man I knew
Polling day, very very sick, I manned my booth and then it started
Young mid twenties tradies wife reached for my HTV husband said you do and you walk home
That booth was in an underprivileged area
two in ten took my HTV in a booth we never won ever we went backwards
Tourists, voting absentee,took not quite half of my HTV
clearly Labor, even if in the end it was closer, needed Albo, but we elected him 6 years before, and the PARTY MACHINE betrayed us

Isn't it the nsw Liberal party trying to legislate the murder of the unborn babies up to birth. They must have some very sick thinking members.