nichy wrote on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 2:53pm:


LOL...as if Tony Abbott is anywhere near being a model statesperson!?

The thought of him being installed as PM definitely scares the crap outta me!

Equitist wrote on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 3:07pm:


Get used to it!!!! LOL

Labor are no great shakes when it comes to public health education and housing either, that's why its important to have the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate no matter who gets the top job 

LOL...as if Tony Abbott is anywhere near being a model statesperson!?

The thought of him being installed as PM definitely scares the crap outta me!....thy equitist


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thy you are so full of it, it will probably do you the world of good.

I think more than anything else, Australians want a stable and capable government which is focused on getting the job done.

Labor are too consumed with managing their own in-party squabbles, of which smacks of instability and poor leadership.

When we have Wayne Swan , Labors Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer  believed to be leaking information to the media, you have to ask yourself why.

Most dysfunctional~

Live by the sword die by the sword... it was only a matter of time before the honeymoon effect wore off and voters both male and female woke up to the fact that Labor was both untrustworthy and undependable.

In other words... "Yes, it was lovely having our very first female PM, though we really need a government that's capable of getting the job done"

Labor is a sneaky underhanded machine which threw a spanner in it's own works.

They only have themselves to blame.

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Let me get this right..you wander around the country bothering people about politics?
Ive rarely heard any of my clients or business associates mention politics or who they think should be running this or any other country.
Im usually to busy discussing work, contracts or personal day to day issues or just socialising and having fun with clients, family and friends and I highly doubt the average person gives a rats tossbag who is running the country.
You're in the community every day telling people how bad the Labor govt is?..Honestly, you need to get a life and enjoy yourself a bit 

I don't think the Greens donkey-votes will be enough to worry about as the election draws near.

The Greens have become a power-brokering party in their own right, and like Labor, have well and truly lost their way where their own parties ethics are concerned, and whilst I have always been opposed to some of their rather out-there policies, I do think I preferred them better when they were functioning as a genuine party, this opposed to the silent-supporters of someone else's.

Even Greens Leader Bob Brown is opposed to the system his party employ to earn themselves seats in the senate....well, so he says.

Guaranteed, if Greens votes are what determine the outcome of this election, this and manage to scrape Labor through by the skin of it's teeth Greens as a party will never live it down.

I think they know this which is why SA greens boycotted their national preference system (their How to vote Greens cards) , and I think others are contemplating doing this also...so you might find as the election draws closer and (IF) Liberal continues to increase in popularity, Greens  balance-of-power may shift...as might their preferences.

I hope so.  

They should listen to their leader on this, because it only stands to hurt their credibility more in the long run...should they be referred to the Australian Preference Party, APP, this and continue to lose touch with their own sense of political autonomy.

Seats in the senate or not, we are talking about the overall credibility of a party here, and if a 'clunker' Labor party wins this election, purely because Greens  sold them preferences, then those who unwittingly voted 'How-to-vote-Green' this time, wont again next time, guaranteed, thus will cost them at the 2013 election after a dysfunctional Labor party has reeked it's havoc.

I would be trying to remain as neutral as possible if I were them, or at least preference both leading party's 60/40 (in favour of Labor) if they genuinely do prefer Labors climate or environmental policies.

Because at least this way, they wont be held accountable if Labor do manage to get in and destroys what's left of our economy...this and wont be left holding the baby.i

Either way, if Labor do manage to get in due to Greens preferences, they will inevitably be referred to as that how-to-vote party who cant stand on it's own two feet that preferences parties for their own political gain.

Can you imagine how many green voters they will lose once Labor introduce mandatory censorship, when they themselves realise that their Green vote was what made censorship possible, despite Greens having openly opposed censorship itself?

A vote for Greens is inadvertently a vote for Labor!

This is why this party appeals more to naive/youth/uninformed voters.

By voting for the Greens, (should Labor win)..they will have effectively cut off their green noses to spite their face, when they can no longer google what they used to because "Labor says no!i