Where is the talent?
Its sitting on the Coalition back bench not the front bench.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailyteleg...ar_barb_sees_abbott_wooed_like_corleone_dons/
The government’s fate now depends on Dobell MP Craig Thomson, and his new neighbours on the cross bench, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, who are trying desperately to justify their support of him.
An implacable hatred for Tony Abbott drives Windsor, but the tide has turned and he’s on the wrong side of it.
In the next Pol, I will be interested to see if Gillard and Labor have gained more traction.
If they have, then Abbott better change his tactics and fast.
Why, because her support to win the next election can come from...1.. running a deficit, 2....paying more handouts,... 3...detuning the carbon tax if they decide to do so. i.e. Rob Oakeshott.
So between now and then, will be a critical period. Unless of course the cost of the carbon tax is as bad as it is made out to be!!
joea:
Joea, the Morgan poll results have been astonishingly ignored by the media at large. Their poll came out on the same day (or close to) as Newspoll and shows the worst result ever for labor. Labor was on a primary of 27.5% and Morgan have a pretty good track record with getting it pretty close.
Sails
Thanks.
I agree with you, however I do not trust Labor.
I was just reading this before I checked the forum.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...abuse-myself-says-speaker-20120601-1zlot.html
So it must be getting pretty toxic in the chamber. I actually feel sorry for the deputy speaker. I know Slipper can handle it, and it probably amuses him.
note the remark on an election.
thanks again!
joea
"A couple of times during the week I've thought I'd like to hurl some abuse myself," she said. "I can't do that any more."
She made some really bizarre remarks this morning in an interview with Fran Kelly, all to do with the quite long ago suicide of Greg Wilton who was apparently a friend of hers.So Anna Burke would go back to hurling abuse if she wasn't in the speaker's chair? I though she was complaining that it was too abusive already...
Says it all really...
Joea, the Morgan poll results have been astonishingly ignored by the media at large. Their poll came out on the same day (or close to) as Newspoll and shows the worst result ever for labor. Labor was on a primary of 27.5% and Morgan have a pretty good track record with getting it pretty close.
Here is the chart from Morgan's website and it shows how Abbott began to pull the libs up in the polls not long after he took over from Turnbull:
http://www.roymorgan.com/news/polls/2012/4782/
Well having considered the last few posts, I am off to get the best odds for a 2012 Federal Election.
What is happening in OUR country, just cannot continue.
joea
No matter how bad it gets, Gillard is extremely tenacious. While she remains leader, I don't think we will be lucky enough to get to the polls early. If 2pp went to 80:20, I reckon she would still hang on.
However, if Rudd does make a comeback, he may see the necessity of giving the people a say over carbon tax with an early election and might spare labor a complete wipeout.
Also, if Gillard is pushed for Rudd, I think it is highly likely she would resign to force an election and deny him leadership for the second time. My thoughts only...
She made some really bizarre remarks this morning in an interview with Fran Kelly, all to do with the quite long ago suicide of Greg Wilton who was apparently a friend of hers.
She's not up to the job at all. The irony of the Slipper situation is that he was probably the best speaker for some time.
Julia is clearly beating 1 vote Tony in the preferred PM polls...and is according to many, the worst Labor PM in a 100 years...and yet she's beating that idiot Abbott.
WTF?
Julia is clearly beating 1 vote Tony in the preferred PM polls...and is according to many, the worst Labor PM in a 100 years...and yet she's beating that idiot Abbott.
WTF?
His perception in the electorate is driven by a left wing media and constant union and other movers in the public trough of entitlement.
gg
Thats right, all this rubbish about him being negative never fails to amaze me, the majority of Australians are negative about the Labor party and with good reason.
He conducts himself properly in Parliament while Gillard is a national embarrassment, I'm beginning to think she is trying to be like Keating with wit and style. she has neither.
For a bloke touted as a possible future leader, the former ACTU boss had made little impact. But there he was on Thursday, striding to the Dispatch Box and flicking the switch to vaudeville.
Describing Abbott's campaign as "complete and utter rubbish, nonsense, false, a fraud and a fabrication", Combet told the House: "He has predicted the death of Gladstone, the death of the Latrobe Valley, the death of Portland, the death of the Hunter region, Illawarra, Kwinana, Whyalla, and the story goes on.
"It reminds you a bit of the old Lucky Starr song from the 1960s, I've Been Everywhere."
At which point Combet burst into song: "Cabramatta, Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta - but the punchline is: 'Everywhere is doomed, man'."
His perception in the electorate is driven by a left wing media and constant union and other movers in the public trough of entitlement.
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