Rudd making comeback.

[Tim754]

 Not bad MX250  "Neither party seem to have the good judgment. Both seem to be driven more by ideology and the quest for power than good judgment."
I personally would delete the section "more by ideology and" and insert " entirely for" . Cheers except to all the gutless self serving greedy labor .liberal, national, green  and most other politicians that obliviously hate our beautiful country Australia.

[FAT-TOY]

 We might as well face it those who voted for the independants at the last election are responsible for at least some of the countries problems Carbon Tax, Poker Machine bullshit etc. 
   And on a positive note there is one member of the Labor party government who is capable of getting a root in a brothel.
             Zane 

[mx250]

The Government sent my Census form back !

In response to the question: "Do you have any dependents?"
Apparently replying :
1 million illegal boat people,
3 million drug forked dole bludgers,
3 million third generation unemployed,
2 million people in prison,
half of forking Lebanon, Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan
and 5 million drunken coons
is not an acceptable answer !!!!

[shorelinemc]

Joh for PM!!

cloning isnt that far up yet to go and dig joh up ,maybe the next best thing vote bob

[Nathan S]

Only some dumb decisions huh...

Stimulus package handouts, Building the education revolution, Pink batts, Global warming, National broadband network, Grocery watch, Fuel watch, Solar power rebates, Livestock exports, Carbon tax, Electricity pricing, Building approvals, Illegal immigrants, East timor solution, Malaysia solution, Spending union dollars on hookers

How many of these are winners

Solar panel rebates, Insulation and BER achieved their goals.
Stimulus hand outs arguably did too.
NBN looks like being a real winner, even if we've all forgotten about the concept of governments providing infrastructure.
Electricity pricing, building approvals(?), illegal immigrants, global warming and hookers are not the federal goverment's responsibility.

Stuff like the Malaysian Solution are truely shitful policy, and where the anger should be directed, rather than attempting to crucify them for every single thing that annoys you...

[Shaun G]

Illegal immigrants

Ted there is nothing illegal about someone arriving on a boat and requesting asylum as a refugee.

Now if you are talking about visitors overstaying their visa that is another issue and I agree more action should be taken in this area.

Cheers
Shaun

[Slakewell]

Ill vote Labour again when I'm allowed to put Hookers on Kev's credit card. 

[suzuki27]

I doubt Labor will govern in their own right for a very long time after the next election.  Whether it is due to the back room boys/unions or their getting into bed with the greens and the time old Labor tradition of not being responsible for their spending largesse, etc. They are truly lost in my opinion- and that hurts as someone who will never vote Lib. The big boys in town want them gone- miners/media etc, and if you take the time to peel off that stuff their ideas are not as bad as portrayed. The miners can and should pay a  s...load more for taking massive profits from a finite resourse, the majority of whose profits go OS etc. You do have to put a price on carbon  otherwise there is no disincentive for the big polluters to ever change their ways. We had the GFC and stimulation was required- just look at the rest of the 1st world countries and how they are going compared to us etc etc. Take your extreme right Christian opp leader- a younger Bush- and let him go. Do you think we will ALL be better off?

[Mike52]

Joh for PM!!

cloning isnt that far up yet to go and dig joh up ,maybe the next best thing vote bob

Every one loves to rag old Joh BUT if you fell off your bike back then  [ I did so I know ] the ambulance picked you up and took you to hospital where they fixed you up in less than 2 hours and all this was FREE.
No medicare , FREE.

Then Labor came along with medicare and a story about free hospitals , except we already had them up here in backwards Queensland.
I now have to pay and I'm not game to fall off because I may never get fixed or may die waiting.

[Nathan S]

Yep.
 On the flip side, our actual preferred PM (Turnbull) is on record saying that there should be no Medicare (and presumably no public health system!?), and everyone should have private health insurance...
And he's the Liberals' bleeding heart lefty?!

We really are doomed.

[suzuki27]

Got hit by a car in QLD in 1973; broken femur and in hospital for a couple of months, no charge. This sort of health treatment was once part of Labor ideology-  you just won't see that under a modern Lib govt.  We ARE a rich country and the more we start to dig in over health care and education spending the better.  The leader doesn't appear to have enough authority/backing. She is a shot duck and should at least go down in a blaze. Stand on a decision or perish trying- at least show some guts!

[motomaniac]

Electricity pricing, building approvals(?), illegal immigrants, global warming and hookers are not the federal goverment's responsibility.

Building approvals are an indication of how the economy is going which is and indication of the job the the Government is doing in running the country.
Electricity ,water ,roads ,sewerage services etc are part of our civilised society .The goverment should have some regulation over maintaining our civil services and structures,that is part of the responsibilty of running the country or state.
Illegal immigration and control of immigration is also the responsibility of the Federal Government, since Federation.

How tax payers money is spent is the responsibility of the Government.That includes money spent by MP's on whatever.
Global warming??? Well Im not going there except to say that there must be two Nathans's on this forum

[shorelinemc]

Illegal immigrants

Ted there is nothing illegal about someone arriving on a boat and requesting asylum as a refugee.

Now if you are talking about visitors overstaying their visa that is another issue and I agree more action should be taken in this area.

Cheers
Shaun

yes coming in on a boat ,but 1st they flew into indonsia,why dosnt indonsia look after there muslim brothers!!!!

[oldfart]

Joh and Russ  had great forsieght, and new how to feed the chooks also  ....they where movers and shakers with great vision, of which our present Ju-lia seems to lack.

[pancho]

 All joh was good at was exactly the same as 'bonzarella' bob
 They new how to get elected. One was a crook, the other was a waste of space.