PM Builds on landslide as Shorten remains faceless.

[silverfaun]

Will Bill Shorten ever shake off the "faceless man" epithet that has dogged him all his political life? Will he be able to garner affection so important to a politician?

What is his X Factor? what can he do the emerge from the isolation he has put himself in since gaining the leadership of the OPP party. Nobody's seen him, where is he? what's his excuse for not putting himself out there for the public to see just what kind of a man he is & what values he can impart to the people who did not vote for him but are hugely important to him if he wants to be a viable Opp Leader.

Waiting until Parliament resumes must be a daunting thought for him as he doesn't have the chutzpah & likeable personna of Albanese. Albanese who is no longer leader of Opp business, what's that all about? getting rid of one of the most successful operators Labor had & putting a woman in as deputy regardless that she nearly lost her seat because of her constant verballing of doomsday events Tony Abbott would visit on us if he got in.

Prime Minister Abbott won't take long to get his measure, after all, he got Gillard's & Rudd's, they had no defence against him other than a disgraceful gender war that was so desperate it may have cheered the sisterhood but never came near lifting her popularity and people had gone off Rudd redux.

Then we were subjected to poor Rudd, a damaged man, manic & autocratic that was so transparent voters repudiated him in droves. Rudd, the man Shorten removed from the Prime Ministership & then expecting voters to trust him after he destroyed Gillard's Prime Ministership. This is a man with no moral fibre, another man whom his own colleagues don't like & call him names & deride him behind his back.

Are we going to be treated to an Opposition that is dysfunctional & chaotic like they were in government? time will tell, they haven't looked at any of the reasons they failed as yet, they haven't faced up to the reasons they failed as far as we can see. If they don't have an in depth review of themselves they are doomed to keep making the decisions that has seen them reduced to little more than a rump.

TONY Abbott, once mocked by Labor as "unelectable", is now preferred as prime minister by nearly half of voters.

Bill Shorten, dubbed a "faceless man" after the political knifing of Kevin Rudd in 2010, remains just that: a faceless man.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/pm-gaining-as-shorten-remains-faceless/stor...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-builds-on-election-landslide-newspoll/s...

[azureline**]

well, I am not too proud of him for his recent "wacko" statements.

[silverfaun]

I thought the "Gothic Horror Show" the Labor machine man called the last .Labor govt. was spot on. but still blind to the fact that it was Labors policies that ultimtely brought them down.

[polksaladallie]

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Isn't Tiny Abbott substantially shorter than his 2 daughters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFmv22ghzQw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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3 daughters, and his wife and his minder.

[freakiness]

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@silverfaun wrote:

I thought the "Gothic Horror Show" the Labor machine man called the last .Labor govt. was spot on. but still blind to the fact that it was Labors policies that ultimtely brought them down.

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He wasn't referring to the Labor govt.

[silverfaun]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@silverfaun wrote:

I thought the "Gothic Horror Show" the Labor machine man called the last .Labor govt. was spot on. but still blind to the fact that it was Labors policies that ultimtely brought them down.

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He wasn't referring to the Labor govt.

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ALP boss slams 'gothic horror' Labor government

ALP boss George Wright has likened the former government to a gothic horror story, and called on Labor MPs to address the culture of infighting in caucus and "get on with it".The party's national secretary gave the dressing down while delivering his post-election assessment of the federal election campaign at Canberra's National Press Club."Labor's history of infighting in office left us unworthy of re-election in the minds of too many voters," he said.He said the "weight of disunity" became "too heavy" for either Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd to carry."Gothic horror was a favourite subject of mine at university, so as you can tell I'm perfectly qualified to have managed the Labor Party over the last three years," he added....

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Published By: abc.net.au - Yesterday

Please, at least try to do a modicum of research before you utter untruths. Is this a strategy? to make these outrageous utterances & hope other posters believe you because they don't want to do the research themselves?.

[lakeland27]

he's referring to the relationships within the party. not its performance as a government. people tend to read between the lines and insert their own view. the actual day to day business and policy development was very good. its what the labor voters wanted, apart from single issues like asylum seekers.

where is the barnabas outrage over land sales to indonesia now, or indeed the budget emergency.

i personally think Rudd was the problem Gillard suffered from most, with his constant leaking to undermine her. without that she'd most likely still be in office. i also think removing him was foolish, not because he was a better PM because the public couldn't deal with such a move. i've grown to despise the bleep, but his policies are far more sensible than tone and the rest of the drongos in office now.

[freakiness]

Mr Abbott likes to portray himself as The Iron Man, but when most voters
looked at him what they saw was the mild-mannered Bruce Banner trying to
suppress his inner Hulk.

By way of digression, as a former Aussie Rules half back flanker, I’m also an
English Lit major. And because of that I know ‘The Hulk’ is a 1960s cartoon
re-working of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous horror Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
In fact, Gothic Horror was a favourite subject of mine at Melbourne University

I did!

[freshwater-2]

As an ex neighbour of Tony Abbott, I assure you he is a short guy by anyone's standards.

The only reason I mention this is because of the nasty references to 'little' Shorten.

However, height aside, I am not a fan of either of them.

[**meep**]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

If Abbott is 1.8 metres tall who ever measured him needs to buy a new tape measure. He's about 1.6metres, because i'm a bit shorter than him.

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160cm???  I'm about 159cm, there is no way he is as short as me

[**meep**]

How tall was Napoleon?  170cm  ??