Let me get this straight.

Labor, in it's desperation, signed an alliance with the Greens (AFTER the Election) to gain 1 more seat.  Again, Labor, in it's desperation, promised $10billion to the Independents to gain their votes (where will the $10 billion come from.........as there is now supposed to be a shortfall of nearly $8 billion from the crazy mining tax).  Isn't Treasury just great at doing their arithmetic?

So, now, we have the Greens wanting to do some sort of deal with the Libs.  Is that because Labor are showing strong signs of already reneging on their committment to the Greens?  And Oakshott and Windsor?  Will they be disallusioned?

What a rabble.  Tony Abbott should just stand back and let the Rainbow Party implode.  That's what I think.  If he does that, then that will be the end of the loony Greens, possibly the Labor Party and the 2 amigos who sold out their Electorates.

Go, Tony, hold this rabble to account.  It was best that Labor won Government (I mean, bribed their way into Government).  Just sit back and watch for eg. the Green's disgusting taxes and ideologies be announced.  The un-informed voters who voted for the Greens will soon realise that they have been conned.

A house divided against itself will NOT stand.  And so, we have the Rainbow Party.

What an entertaining sideshowwe are already witnessing, and that's just after a couple of days. lol lol lol

I thought she was going to give him an indigenous affairs role, or was this if he got knocked back for foreign affairs?

I know he's supposed to be delivered to her cabinet.

So much for his almighty UN position, or was that a decoy?

Speaking of UN, why have we installed an Australian embassy in Ethiopia?

Free slave-trade agreement?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/i-will-hold-my-bush-coalition-together-vows-prime-minister-julia-gillard/story-fn5ko0pw-1225915608217


UPDATE 6.15pm: FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd is expected to be made foreign minister in an overhaul of Julia Gillard's Labor frontbench.

The cabinet could make history if independent Rob Oakeshott decides to take up the Labor leader's offer to make him minister for regional Australia - part of the deal to gain the support of the Lyne MP and fellow independent Tony Windsor to stay in government.

Ms Gillard is expected to consult more broadly than her predecessor Mr Rudd on her new ministry but has pledged to use powers caucus gave him after his 2007 election victory to name the frontbench free of factional influence.

Mr Rudd is tipped to get his preferred role, with Foreign Minister Stephen Smith switching to defence, vacated by John Faulkner.

A senior Labor source said Mr Rudd was likely to get "the portfolio he asks for".

I find it odd that Rudd will get what he wants after being back stabbed and humilliated, Here we have an ex PM who only had the support of 21 for and 80 against, hence he didn't fight for his job now sitting shoulder to shoulder to his plotters and assasins.

Rudd must have some seriously thick skin or has some other issues that see him support and back his attackers???


It just does not make sense.

the problem is, Gillard has to appease so many different sections, the unions, the factions, the plotters, the greens, the independants etc.

How can she possibly make policy that everyone is happy with. This governemnt will not get any policy running of its own, it will unfortunately have to concentrate on policy of the minor parties in order to keep in government.

We will have the greens puching for a highe rmining tax and fishing bans and a carbon tax, the independants will want billions poured into regional projects.

The greens will only support labor policy if it gets its own way on its agenda, same with the independants????

i give it 6 months and we'll be voting again???

When those Governement advertisments come onto TV all I think is, not another cheesy political commerical. I always ask myself if anyone actually believes what they hear...

I guess the last election result answers the question. The people of Australia are frustrated with empty promises and no action...

What you forget is that if their is another election even in the next year .. That a fair few people will take it out on the party that pushed them to it so soon eg.. the coalition ... it is them that want it not the other 6 million or more Aussies..

It is only the coalition and their voters that are upset because they didn't get in and this resentment they are showing can be seen very clearly by the public now and was during the negotiations with the indi' s..

They will also lose the support of these indi's and i cant see them losing their seats due to a bitchy whine from Abbott cause he lost it will cost the coalition more ...

They have a dodgy past record of mud slinging hence why we have so many ex nationals that have become indi's .. we can expect more to leave the coalition over the next year or so once the see what the indi's have achieved.. They already know their chances are better if they do.

Binary Ninja wrote on Sep 9^th, 2010 at 9:47pm:


I don't think you have the faintest clue why anyone who voted for, or was a member of, the coalition is upset.

Binary Ninja wrote on Sep 9^th, 2010 at 9:58pm:


Why on earth would Abbott need to pull his head in when he can just sit back and watch the skittles party implode?