John Howard has a great team with a lot of ability and he can now stand aside and hand over the office to Peter Costello who has the ability to continue. A ballot would be healthier we will have Tony Abbott, Alexander Downer and Malcolm Turnball quite a formidable team to continue from a great leader the best since Sir Robert Menzies. The Queen must now make an exception and Knight him as he has deserved it more than Cliff Richard, Michael Caine, Paul McCartney, Bob Geldorf, Elton John etc. Iraq may not go down as the great success story but at least all of that oil is now privatised and not financing Sadam Hussein regime. We will all hope and pray that Labor will not gain the fruits of all the hard work done by Peter Costello making sure that the savings that has been made by stopping wasteful spending on Government Education and Health Child Care and Aged Care. All of these would be better served privately and not be a drain on the tax payers purse. John you have served us all exceedingly well and now is the time to step down vacate the position as did your good friend Tony Blair. We all hope that we do not become a Republic but if we ever do it would be a great gesture if Peter Costello would appoint John Howard President of the Federation of Australia. That would be a token effort to repay John for standing aside with the agreement from Peter for not making a bid for the PM position

All good Liberals must now be proactive to ask John Howard to stand down before it is too late. Our Branch has passed a motion giving our concerns that our party will be exterminated at the next election if we do not change our leadership. Personally I cannot understand why we have become unpopular admittedly we bit the bullet on Industrial Relations because it had to be done. Carers on $16 dollars an hour were asking as much as 4% pay rises if this happened Doctors and Nurses would be demanding the same. We have helped small business to hire and fire at will. We have seen the dangers of collective bargaining when the AFL players association boycotted channel 7 for obtaining private medical records with the help of freedom of information. John Howard and Kevin Andrews have done a stirling job carrying on where Peter Reith left off. It would be great if Peter Reith returned to the ranks of our Government.

I reckon Peter Costello would make a wonderful PM ...for New Zealand.

Julie,

Bugger off! You're just a spammer.

Has anyone else noticed that Julie has submitted 13 posts so far, all within 24 hours!

Click her website link. I doesn't even lead anywhere. The URL for it is just "http://Julie Vickers". Not even a valid link.

Also, if you use Firefox as a web browser or you Internet explorer has updated to version 7, then open up multiple tabs all with OLO pages and you'll notice that you're CPU starts to run at near 100%. A strong indication that she's hacked OLO, giving her the ability to post as often as she likes.

I started a dicussion about this but she will probably have been dealt with by the time it's posted.

You right-wingers are pathetic! Julie rambles on like someone who has been completely brainwashed.

Get a life loser!

Sheesh!

Apologies for the spelling and grammatical errors in that last post. I was trying to get it up quickly so that she can be dealt with promptly. We read enough of this garbage here already without a hacker repeating it in spam.

Lighten up John, there are already too many people in Australia suffering cardiovascular and neurological problems to have others like you stressed by Julie about our illustrious leader.