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Yes. It is just a pity we do not have a conservative group to vote for. We have two small liberal major parties. The only two conservative contenders in this election are the United Australia Party and One Nation. The Liberal Democrats are libertarians, whose main claim is smaller government, not conservative government.

ttbn,

I prefer Josh Frydenberg instead of Peter Dutton
as PM. I think Dutton is excellent with the
Defence portfolio.

Jim Chalmers? No objections to him.
Although he's not really all that well known.

Josh Frydenberg gets my tick.

Terry Barnes reckons that Morrison looked as comfortable as "a nun in a bordello on pay night in Pompey" during his encounter with an uncouth old ratbag in a shopping centre, saying that Morrison's response should have been Bob Hawke's ‘silly old bugger'.

This week's leading article in 'The Spectator' reminds us that only three Labor leaders have won government from opposition since WW11: Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd.

"Labor only ever succeeds in displacing a Liberal government with a popular and appealing personality as its chief salesman".

Popular and appealing personality. Does that describe poor old Albo

ttbn,

It certainly does not describe Albo. But then when we
look at many world leaders - many of the good ones
were hardly popular for their looks.

As for Labor and Australia? Peter Malinauskas the current
SA Premier - could well be a contender sometime in the
future? And he is good-looking and personable as well as
appearing to have good leadership qualities.

Foxy

I think it's about personality. Whitlam had wit. Hawke was forceful. I can't think of much to say about Rudd. The writer of the article describes Rudd as "as the single most absurd figure to ever take up residence in Kirribilli". But he obviously had something in the beginning. He fooled me for a while. He did have a certain charisma.

Albo is "cursed with a permanently sour expression on his face, with knitted eyebrows and a downturned mouth". He calls Australia 'Aushtrayia'; he can't answer simple questions and, amazingly, he blames the Solomon's backstabbing on the way we handle climate change!

Had Labor known that Morrison was going to sell us out with Zero Emissions by 2050, they could have stuck with Bill Shorten - a much more presentable possibility for PM.