What a joke the Libs and Abbott are, and they continue to show their contempt for the voters by refusing to put up anything that resembles a policy or vision.

They have decided to oppose everything that Labor has done and everything they plan to do in the future. Then they  expect us to believe that the only Labor Policy they agree with is Labor's Industrial Relations Policy....what an insult to the Australian people they are , in expecting us to believe that they wont alter this policy and send us back to the dark ages of Howard's attempt to undermine the worker. Please note : that they have taken both sides of the fence when asked about whether they would change Labor's I.R. policy....no doubt so that if elected...... and when they do revert back to WORKCHOICES..... they can grab the appropriate sound bite to show that they did say they would /alter/ tweak/change this policy.

They have had 3 years to develop their own Industrial Relations policy, or any policy...but no ......they are happy with Labor's I.R. policy.... What a BARE FACED  LIE this is. They continue to be in denial about the real state of our economy compared to the rest of the world...and continue to try and paint a FALSE bleak picture of doom and gloom, instead of coming up with a plan for the future.

What an insult to the Australian people they are, for an opposition, they have had 2/3 years to come up with something that resembles a policy, but they offer nothing..... but how bad off we are and how bad Labor are,....nothing to show how good they are, and how they see the future of this country, you know....a plan for the future.

You would think that as an opposition you would at least put up some policies?   To show the people that you have a plan....but all we get is how bad Labor are and how badly they have handled the economy?????  and the Libs  are going to cut this and cut that.(trying to create the false impression that things are worse than they actually are)...blimey i'd hate to see the cuts the Libs would adopt if the actual state of the economy was bad.

If they were going for a job they would be ushered  out of the interviewers office in quick time  for the sheer arrogance of adopting this approach of.... Don't you worry about me....i am not as bad as the last bloke....without showing your potential employer that you have a plan and a vision for your employer, not just tell him you are going to be  better than the last bloke/woman.

This bloke is putting his hand up for the highest position in the country....and yet, in this interview process...all we get is a brash, arrogant and swaggering  politician who is more intent on deflecting scrutiny off himself and his party, instead of showing us his vision for the country and our future.

The sky is falling , the sky is falling,

wombleoz
What did you think of Abbott's change to the rebate AP? - the worker paying for rich kids violins and pianos that will cost "X billion dollars"? He sure knows how to appeal to the working class (i.e. those that work for a living and try to battle on at or under the average wage)

Id sooner see a gifted Aussie violinist or pianist exceling on a world stage in years to come ,compared to $ 600,000 for a toilet [;)]

Judge:

oh dear this useless new prime minister could decide what to have for her own breakfast.Needs the faceless backroom to make all her decisions.Read below for the  pathetic puppet govt labor is.

Critics have accused Labor of creating the assembly to waste time and delay action on a carbon price.

They also fear unrealistic expectations are being imposed on the assembly.

The national parliament already has failed to agree on whether a carbon price is needed.

An independent authority will select the 150 people from all regions and age groups.

Participation will be voluntary and involve some face-to-face meetings.

The assembly, which has not been given a start date, will be given 12 months to reach a verdict.

Its costs will come out of $9 million set aside for it and a separate experts' panel.

Ms Gillard repeatedly has said she does not want to create a carbon price until community consensus was clear that one is needed.

"This has to be a consensus beyond Parliament House," she told the reporters.


fkkkkkk me- there has to be consensus beyond parliament house????????? errrrrrr jooolia I think you missed the memo, thats what  elections are for.We the  people elect you the PM{ oh sorry you were'nt elected PM were you{neverther less} and when you got the job your supposed to make decisions- thats what your there for.Putting every issue to the people everytime means NOTHING will ever get done, unless its a tax hike, seems you have no issue raising taxes, no need to consult there huh??
  The nation is doomed under the next gilliard govt.

LTU- i'm not prime minister, neither are you.But jooolia will lets us decide? Consensus? What a cop out.

Where is Jez?

that could be it AP or else he has been banned for being for being an Abbott backer [;)]

i'm still waiting on mine as well but no, we're rolling in it thanks to Labor saving us from going into recession

p.s. shouldn't be much longer hopefully - slight delays down to the system upgrade

in essence he is saying, even though our policy is fkd, so is labors, so they shouldn't be criticizing ours

There was a fairly good debate of the climate change / carbon price issue on Q&A on the ABC last night.  Also covered a few other topics, if anyone is interested it may be worth a look at the ABC website (can watch the show on there).

Must say, the discussion on the programme really highlighted how internally polarised both both major parties are.

I fell asleep during it shiraz but it started ok - would be very interesting to see how this election was looking now if Turnbull had got that one extra vote.

Interesting times with Labor leaking away - can they stop them? Or does it really matter??

Does anyone else feel uncomfortable about Abbott pimping his daughters in the hope it will win him a few votes??

Not that I mind if he does another of those 60 minutes stories with them jumping around in the pool in their bikinis [;)]

Vote 1 Australia Sex Party

Q?: Which poll do you believe before staking the hard earned on the election outcome ??

so your saying that the exit poll is the only reliable poll, or that these pro abbott polls, currently, should be believed ??

they're all the same second. The filtering system from pre selection through to the top ranking cabinet members ensures that honest, trustworthy, INTELLIGENT, hard working, caring people cannont pass through the Ahole only membrane. I'll trust the hip pocket nerve again... which says to me that irregardless of what the liberals advertise re work choices... most voters wont believe it and vote from fear again. It finished howard and will prevent abbott.

the family first party, has approached the sex party for its preferences, can you fkn believe that?

excuse my ignorance veryLTU, steve?

Fielding Judgey - strange strange man, I could believe they tried to do a preference deal

The betting markets haven't moved as much as the polls, I know which one is a better indication.  Abbott will say something stupid before long and seal the deal.

Vote 1 Australian Sex Party

The truth about labor's fiasco as a party is being revealed day by day.The longer Lobes Gilliard is in the worse it gets for her.The puppet is being revealed.she is finding it difficult to hide her contempt for certain parts of the nation.
July 31 news

Tony Abbott leads Julia Gillard in latest poll From: AAP July 31, 2010 2:04AM Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrint
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JULIA Gillard has taken a battering in the latest opinion poll, which shows the Coalition would win the election if it was held now.
Support for the Prime Minister and Labor has fallen dramatically while the Opposition has taken the lead in the Herald/Nielsen poll published today.

The Coalition is now ahead of Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent - a six percentage point swing against the government since the last Nielsen poll a week ago.

Labor's primary vote has plummeted six points to 36 per cent while the Coalition's primary vote has risen four points to 45 per cent.

Ms Gillard's popularity has even fallen among women, with her 58-42 lead over Tony Abbott narrowing to 49-51.

Her approval rating fell five points to 51 per cent and her disapproval rating rose six points to 39 per cent.


   Seems she cannot even fool the womens for a few weeks.No wonder the Libs are gettting backed in.

Morning all....a huge 3 weeks of the election campaign to date.

I'm campaigning hard for real action and real leadership.

What an absolutely fascinating campaign this has turned out to be.  There is no doubt, the dynamics have changed, this election is like no other.   

I felt a feeling of overwhelming joy on glancing at the Galaxy poll out this morning again showing the Coalition maintaining a slender lead over the hopeless, hapless and shambolic Labor government.
Make no mistake boys and girls, the ALP are floundering, shaky, desperate and running out of options.  The bin of dumped plans/strategies is close to overflowing at ALP HQ.

Is "the real Julia" and a last minute resucitation of the desposed and loathed former Prime Minister Rudd, the best Bruce Hawker and the rest of the Hawker Britton boys could come up with at ALP HQ?

ROFLMAO.

This Labor government is in deep strife and they devastatingly know it.   Internal polling for the Coalition and Labor are showing primary vote figures for the government that are worse still than the public polling out there.

With a 2 week (mother of all) Abbott fear campaign and the throwing of everything and kitchen sink at the Coalition about to begin (that Mr Abbott warned off before the election), Labor insiders are close to reaching for the rosary beads and get the wishing, hoping and praying mode into full swing.

Its always difficult to defeat a first-term government and Labor are sinister, brutal and often effective campaigners.  But as I say, the dynamics are different. How's about the record? - the waste, the debt, the taxes and the boats.  How's about the swift, brutal execution of a first term PM?  And how's about the chronic division and disunity within Labor with the litany of leaks and whispers.

I remember a great and magnificent former Prime Minister once said, disunity is death - and so it is, even just a tiny whiff of it!

How can we trust this Labor government, when it's senior members, don't trust each other and they honestly do not believe they deserve re-election.....?

I have to say I love listening to the constant flow of denial from Wombleoz and the Labor cheer squad.  You may very well win, but there is a real possibibility, you won't.  You comrades are very much helping the Coalition and Tony Abbott's cause.  There has been a fatal mistake, realised week's ago by Labor strategists but still terminally smothering this bad government and its faithful - the simple fact that they strongly and unequivocally believe Tony Abbott is unelectable and the perpetuated under-estimation of him as a leader..............

In my mind, along with the glaringly obvious flaws of this bad government, for Labor, this may end up being a potentially fatal error of judgement.