07-05-2014 07:37 PM - edited 07-05-2014 07:39 PM
on 11-05-2014 11:29 AM
Tony Abbott told Australian voters that the 2013 Federal Election was about ..'Trust'
on 11-05-2014 11:42 AM
@silverfaun wrote:And those poor excuses are still there, bare faced and hypiocritical, so it will be interesting to see how they can re brand themselves into credible MP's all the while for the next 3 years we are going to suffer to try to get some kind of balance back in the budget.
No matter how much the left wish and hope they will regain power it's just that, wishing and hoping while the rest of Australia are praying they never get back.
We are going to suffer for only two years, thankfully.
on 11-05-2014 11:47 AM
Wishin hoping, singing and praying, this is what labor is doing, hoping we will forget about the catastrophic disaster they left this country in.
The utter bare faced hypocrisy beggars belief, the obfuscation and denial is laughable and all we see is Bills overacting and fake outrage, no wonder his colleagues call him showbag, all show and nothing inside, a hollow man, nobody believes him and nobody believes they could ever be trusted to govern again, after they didn't last time.
on 11-05-2014 12:01 PM
on 11-05-2014 12:08 PM
11-05-2014 12:30 PM - edited 11-05-2014 12:31 PM
Tony Abbott's legislative agenda in danger from proposed changes to Senate voting
The Coalition, Labor and the Greens have united to support historic changes to Senate voting laws and tougher rules for party registration in a bid to stop “preference harvesting” between minor parties.
The joint standing committee on electoral matters on Friday recommended changing electoral laws to allow for optional preferential above-the-line voting and optional partial preferential below-the-line voting for the Senate.
This would give voters more control over their preference flows by giving them the option to rank all the parties above the line. It would also make it easier for voters who choose to vote below the line, requiring them to rank only a minimum of six candidates.
......Mr Smith said the group voting system had created "a lottery" whereby voters selecting candidates above the line had no practical way of knowing where their preferences were flowing.
Liberal Democratic senator-elect David Leyonhjelm said the Senate voting changes would be “profoundly undemocratic”.
"This is a stitch-up by the major parties to get rid of the minor parties," he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-legislative-agenda-in-danger-from...