Nobody else is going to be any better.

SOB

If Abbott and Gillard are the best this country can do then we need to have a long hard look at ourselves.

Rudd was a nobody before he made a move on the leadership. So we don't know how he will do once he gets into the chair.

He's going to tell it like it is and people don't like it. Yet we want pollies to tell us what they think.

Juliar Gillard & Tony Abbott should be banned from going to the UK or the USA and banned from conspiring with their politicians while they serve in the Australian Parliament.  I don't trust either of them.

For a very long time now Australian politics have been a contest of the tail-enders (ratchets eyebrows), with We, The People of this great and future Republic having to choose which one we consider will do the least harm.

Fact is - in the last 30 odd years, both have done immeasurable harm - both economically and socially.  I was watching Q and A last night - and remain amazed that so very many people still think that living in Australia is living in paradise.  YES - it is - compared to many other nations - which is like saying that living in a sewer is better than being miles out to sea in the outfall....after processing - which, if you think about it, is a pretty fair summation of the current malaise of this country and its people.

In all honesty - I feel that the time is long overdue for some new political party blood, and I most definitely feel that the enormous number of quite disparate movements of discontent we have here at this moment are looking for a new direction - one as far away from the chicanery of both Labor and Coalition as possible.

I call these two the Tag Team - for the simple reason that one gives us a battering, then the other...and neither markedly improves the lot for the ordinary person by very much more than a little window dressing to cover up their own mistakes.

Gifts for increasing power costs due to Carbon Taxes cannot remove the fundamental flaw in the whole argument - we are the only country in the world doing anything at all about this - AND we are still equally culpable for global carbon increase (I fall short of utter belief in global warming and have many doubts there) and pollution for the simple reason that - regardless of where we off-shore all our own industries (and pay for the privilege with rising costs contrary to touted benefits) - we remain consumers of the same goods produced in the same dirty ways.

The real response to Australia 'leading the way' with a Carbon Tax on the pitiful remaining industries here is a lot like the laughter of the showground crowd at Babe running onto the paddock to herd the sheep....

This is political posturing on the world stage (well - how unusual!) - not a substantial gain for the Australian people.

All the respective 'policies' of both sides here have achieved is more of the same - golden opportunities for the well-heeled and the unscrupulous at the expense of the creation of yet another and lower class here - that of the Never-Will-Haves, who suffer endemic unemployment, total lack of real opportunities, and a total lack of any horizon at all.

Physicians - heal thyselves first!

"Day Three at this Test Match between Australia and the Rest of the World, with Australia having failed badly in the batting order, and now totally dependent on the tail end of Gillard and Abbott to pull something out of the hat.  On past form, there seems very little likelihood of Australia lasting the first session here today - Abbot has a string of failures to try to make up with the selectors, including the Hanson Test, while Gillard has never achieved a decent score once in her career and has been selected only because of her bowling well once in the Rudd Test, and remains a very unproven bat"......

Turnbull isn't coming back and Mr Abbott WILL be the next PM. It's really about time that many of you get over that.

Clive Palmer for PM

If we are to have an idiot, then let them be entertaining.