Next Australian federal election...............

[fourandsixpants]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Australian_federal_election

ref.  tables of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with all parties esp. both Libs and Labor

........tell a lot..................but the small print under the table for

'Preferred Prime Minister and satisfaction polling^'....says it all!

           "^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader."

[fourandsixpants]

in fact, an average of 61% were polled as 'uncommitted' to either TA or BS.

........wow

[silverfaun]

Yep, we all want Bill, the faceless assassin and union machine man.

Yep we all want labor back even after 6 years of hell we want labor back.

[icyfroth]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Yep, we all want Bill, the faceless assassin and union machine man.

Yep we all want labor back even after 6 years of hell we want labor back.

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NOT!

[debra9275]

Paints ,

I quite understand people being disatisfied with both major parties.'Personally I  am undecided so far ( for the next election), but  I sure 'know who i WON'T be voting for

[debra9275]

I may even vote for Clive 

 will have to wait and see how things pan out

[boris1gary]

yes, Labor were just sooooooooooo terrible, says the murdoch press anyway. The reality however is somewhat different.....

The previous Labor Government gave us.....

* Introduced Australia's first national Paid Parental leave scheme.
* Won a seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council
* Abolished WorkChoices.
* Steered Australia from being the world's 15th largest economy to
  being the world's 12th largest economy.
* Increased pensions.
* Delivered three lots of Tax Cuts.
* Achieved AAA credit ratings from all international ratings agencies,
  a first by any Australian government.
* Topped the OECD growth table for 2012
* Lauded by the IMF for its enviable economic performance.
* Increased Disability Pensions.
* Increased Child Care Rebates.
* Increased pensions for surviving POWs by $500 a fortnight.
* Stopped the rorting of the private health insurance rebate.
* Increased funding for health services ($16.4 billion).
* Increased funding for mental health ($2.2 billion).
* Withdrew Australian combat troops from Iraq.
* Abolished exit fees for mortgages when changing banks.
* Ranked third in the world on "Brave thinkers" list
* Introduced a carbon tax to tackle climate change.
* National curriculum
* Instrumental in replacing the G8 with the G20 as the pivotal body
for global economic policy co-ordination
* Stopped live cattle exports until welfare concerns were addressed.
* Postponing the budget surplus to 2013-14 to protect jobs.
* Apologised to the Stolen Generation
* Signed Kyoto Protocol
* Saw off John Howard.
* Saw off Brendan Nelson.
* Saw off Malcolm Turnbull.

And let's not forget that they steered us through the GFC to emerge out the other side as the world's miracle economy...

A trifecta of low interest rates, low unemployment and low inflation.

Together with the lowest government debt in the OECD

wow, what a bunch of "faceless", terrible, shambolic whatever blablablabla

[small_creeps_friend]

I always wait for the first Budget to judge the previous Government.  May could be interesting.

[azureline**]

I am very concerned now about our current Government. Up until today, I was ok about it, it goes in cycles............ however, my FIL said today "what can we do to get rid of that silly Abbott before he ruins the country?

Now, ordinarily, that wouldn't bother me but my FIL is in a nursing home, he has dementia and doesn't read the papers or watch the news.........................