This man is going to be the next leader of our country. Does he have a single redeemable feature I don't know about?

Sure.

Fortunately for me, my parents sent me to a private school so therefore I think rugby union is awesome

and this is why i couldn't give two s**** about Australian politics (and politics in general) haha. Nobody ever answers a question directly and it seems liberal party and labour party argue the opposite for the sake of smearing rather than getting a result.

I remember John Howards era being less dramatical than this. Maybe he did a good job?

deluxe f**ot

Tony Abbot will surely be replaced before the next federal election. Surely!

He seems to be doing more harm then good now, in fact I'm absolutely sure Liberal would do much better from this point on (and prior) if Tony Abbot just shuts his trap and doesn't speak at all.

They have to replace him, and he has to whole heartily accept replacement and do his very best to say he wants to leave the position.

All Abbott knows how to do is criticise Labor. He's a f*****g retarded. He wouldn't even describe his own policies. "We'll get to them in good time".Why, oh, why would you vote for him?

Why, oh, why would you vote for him?

But I honestly could not vote for a candidate/party without knowing what their actual plans are.

I'm still voting for the Libs next election

The Government is incompetent beyond belief led by a pathological truth dodger in partnership with cold blooded Marxiststhatwant to shut down Mining entirely.

Neither party is eligible for my vote. Therefor, i will be donkey voting. It's a sad state of politics in Australia.

and this is exactly what's wrong, its retards like this, that vote only based on on party, they put them selfs in one camp and just keep voting for the same party with out ever looking if the party actually has any good policies or if the leader of said party is an insane republican wanna be.

Neither party is eligible for my vote. Therefor, i will be donkey voting. It's a sad state of politics in Australia.

On another note why not start a viral campaign to vote informal at the next election. If enough people vote informal the election will be voided and there is nothing in the constitution about who is in government after a voided election. This may prompt the politicians to actually come up with policies that we care about rather than them continuing their careers.

Looking at policy and who else is on the front bench, in my view gives a strong edge to the coalition.

On another note why not start a viral campaign to vote informal at the next election. If enough people vote informal the election will be voided and there is nothing in the constitution about who is in government after a voided election. This may prompt the politicians to actually come up with policies that we care about rather than them continuing their careers.

BHP Billiton head Marius Kloppers has told European investors that Australia’s carbon and mining taxes have helped to render the nation’s coal industry unworthy of further investment at this time.

‘’What I am seeing on the eastern seaboard in Australia is that the coal industry has been very heavily impacted by lower prices, higher operating costs, carbon taxes and increased royalties,’’ he said.




http://www.theage.com.au/business/taxes-a-drag-on-coal-kloppers-warns-investors-20120823-24oyp.html#ixzz24PSrzzIW

Abbott was correct Sales was a dimwit.

Yeah I honestly don't know how people managed to get by each and every day in this ruined country. I mean Australia has changed so dramatically since the days of Howard that it's hardly even recognizable as the same country anymore.Does anyone know if we have been officially recognized as a third world country yet? Because after all the destruction that Labor has wrought, we surely should be.Pretty sure the world is going to end any day now, because of Labor.

Does anyone know if we have been officially recognized as a third world country yet? Because after all the destruction that Labor has wrought, we surely should be.

you know who australia is crying out for

"the krudler"

you know who australia is crying out for "the krudler"

Howards boat policies didn't work. Only got to look at SIEVX.

What I am really enjoying, is that Labor is so terrible at the moment, so full of lies and backflips and incompetence, that Abbott can basically do whatever he wants. He knows he is going to be the next PM. Go Tony!

We need the Liberal government back. Labor has destroyed our country....

as a ex worker from the AEC a donky vote is binned. so 1,000,000 people can donky vote it will mean nothing and they will still only count what ones have been filled correctly.

Opponents argue that it may increase the number of "donkey votes" (ballot papers numbered from 1, 2 and so on down the ballot paper – the "reverse donkey" goes from 1, 2 and so on up the ballot paper) and the number of informal votes and so diminishes the quality of the vote.

Donkey votes are a correctly completed vote. There is no way of knowing whether or not the preference order indicated accurately reflects the elector's considered opinion, or is a manifestation of ignorance or exasperation.

What Faceman said is right. I suspect there is confusion over what a donkey vote is; it is a specific name for a specific thing in voting parlance.

Tony Abbott gets detroyed take #2

First Abbott hadn't read the BHP press release, then he had, and he hasn't watched or read the transcript to the PM's statement, but tomorrow he may claim that he had. Yet he's prepared enough to do an interview for each.What the heck is he doing?

I would be much more comfortable voting liberals at the next federal election with someone like Turnbull up front rather than Abbott though. The guy is a goose.

Abbot and Gillard look like they could be cousins.

Can someone please copy/pasta those quotes from Tony on why he wouldn't be PM, link is not enough, everyone needs to read that s***.

1. ‘Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.’

2. ‘These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seekers’

3. ‘If we’re honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband … you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he’s employing someone while he is in fact a boss.’

4. ‘The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’

5. ‘I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons’

6. ‘I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak’

7. ‘What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’

8. ‘Gillard won’t lie down and die’

9. ‘Climate change is absolute crap’

10. ‘If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.’

11. ‘I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened’

12. ‘If you’d asked me for advice I would have said to have – adopt a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about all of these things…’

13. ‘Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage’

14. ‘Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I’m proud of that…’

15. ‘There may not be a great job for them but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done’

16: ‘That’s bulls***. You’re being deliberately unpleasant. I suppose you can’t help yourself, can you?'

But opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne denied the reports, saying the coalition had no such plans.
"In fact the coalition strongly supported the uncapping of university places and many other elements of the Bradley Review," he said in a statement.
"While we welcome debate over the quality and standards in our universities, we have no plans to increase fees or cap places."

it f*****g pains me the most that abbott is a fundie

9. ‘Climate change is absolute crap’

Why does it pain you?

Why does it pain you?

http://www.ausforums.com/images/icon11.gifThe irony surrounding the women hating on him when he is happily married with 3 daughters is painful to watch sometimes.

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated [for cervical cancer], maybe that's because I'm a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won't be

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework

Just going to point out that this is word for word used in defence of what Islamic men say about women also, who rely on the same source as Abbott for their views on such...

But you, the oh so objective one, have somehow then linked that perfectly clear statement to "OMG, Abbott is like totally justifyng rape!"

and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated [for cervical cancer], maybe that's because I'm a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won't be

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework

Sounds to me like infi has interpreted it as an Abbott fan and you have interpreted as an Abbott hater.

like saying OMG Abbott our next PM endorses rape. idiot.