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@gleee58 wrote:

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@ladydeburg wrote:

What is the future of elections if  truth in advertising is ignored.,  any election promise that has to be broken is a death knell for any government these days after the carbon lie.

 

Should political parties make any promises at all in election mode? and if not, how will we judge what their policies are? if a policy is found to be unworkable or unaffordable in changing circumstances, should the party be then subject to relentless attack  until government is unworkable.

 

The new political landscape we see now is very different to the landscape we saw under Hawke and Howard.

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 Because the loony nutters kicked Turnbull to the curb and picked Abbott as leader.

 

We had the perfect opportunity for change with the minority government who had to debate, consider more carefully and negotiate more than any other govt before but unfortunately we also got the world's biggest spoil sport as LOO.

 

Abbott is not suitable as a leader.  He is a sledger, in his owns words, that's all he was ever good at.   He's not a leader, he's a school yard bully boy who has a problem with people of higher intelligence, has a problem with women, has a problem with those who are not wealthy white men (or their wives), and the greatest travesty of all is that he has no vision for the future. 

 

We need leaders with ideas and vision for the future.  Not pretend leaders who are quick to blame the entire population of Australian for their failures rather than acknowledge their own shortcomings.  They are a bunch of greedy, leaners who want the rest of us to work till we drop so they can indulge in the high life.

 

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I can see you are a passionate Labor supporter and I respect that, but  the topic is about political campaigns and the promises made in them.

Would it be better if they released a fully costed manifesto and read from that and not deviate from it?, would that work? I don't think so because the party in power has control of Treasury and don't allow the real states of budgets to be released before 5 minutes to midnight.