Election 2010: the week that was | Federal Election 2010

At last an artical that makes sense...well done and well said !

"thanks to Gillard's decision to show herself as a human being rather than a political robot."

Wow, given this is supposedly 'news' reporting rather than an opinion piece, I feel it's fair to call it as it is.

Are you serious?, or do you consider being muzzled by faceless people being 'passionate' and measures up to the standard of 'humanity'? any human, even a real scoundrel of one, would want to set the record straight, particularly for the kinds of record being set.

This story, in its context is no pure political spin, and probably comes out of the same factory that has been dishing out the spin our prime minister has had to perpetuate, except the later is spin with a fair bit of muzzle.

This article is a disgrace if it is meant to be a news piece based on facts. It must surely be written by a labour hack?

A completely one sided story from a Labor ogre. The person who wrote this any many other media people will paint this woman in a bright light and we will have her ruin the country as Blighe has done in Qld. At least try to be impartial, this story is a disgrace.

Ed. note: The article is an opinion column by Doug Conway, Senior Correspondent with AAP.

I am not voting for a caretaker Labor Prime Minister that stabbed in the back the PM that we voted for. The Gang of Four and the faceless men of Labor NSW, Vic and SA. What guarantees do we have that these men will not do the same thing again if they do not like any Labor PM. Just like they have done in NSW over 15 years and destroyed NSW into a third world state. The Nth Coast is a disaster area after 15 years of NSW Labor and Federal Labor have no long term plans for the Nth Coast. The Greens have destroyed employment and are giving all their preferences to Labor.

AndyMac from Grafton who did Abbott stab to get in
Who did Turnball stab to get in?
Who didn't Costello have the guts to stab and never got a chance?
If Abbott wins, don't think Turnball is going to sit in the back bench without sharpening his knife.
The LNP had over a decade and did nothing for the skills shortage ,the ageing population,pensioners pay,lack of superannuation,the environment or infrastructure investment.
They then introduced Work Choices which made the lives of the majority of Australians a lot worse than they were before.

What trash, look at the polls its now 50/50 and given where they were a year ago and even after the night of the long knives, the Labout vote is dwindling.

She has been out bid on paid maternity leave, been out bid on aid to the disabled, aout bid on the boat pepole, and and is only offering bits of of add ons to pre-existing policies.

The claim to have saved Australia in the GFC what ROT, they were given a firm solid base to stand on, and they blew it away, lets HOPE and second burst of the GFC doesn't hit then we WILL suffer more, Borrowing $100m a DAY is NOT good business.

I don't care if she is childless, and living in a defacto relationship, or a women, I can look past that and look at the policies. Mining tax is still a tax and backdown, The boat people fix wasn't, and well the ETS well that now not up to her but the 150 community group, so her three big fixes she tried to fix before the election we not anything really.

time to go.

ChrisNorman. HELLO, The Liberals did not stab Turnbull in the back. It was a democratic vote by the party to replace Turnbull and there where three people that put up their hand for the job.. It is now fact that Rudd was stabbed in the back by the Faceless men in NSW, Vic and SA. It had nothing to do with the Federal Labor Party. it was all done under the cover of darkness and behind closed doors at night when none of the Labor Party in Canberra where present. This is not democracy it is the dirty tactics of the Labor party that even Falkener has gone public on in a public forum. I will nto vote for a Labor party that stabbed the voted Labor PM in the back, the public put in? Or are you living on some other planet?

We are now $90B in debt and borrowing at the rate of $100m/week and as "alwayswatching" has listed some of the disaster that the Gang of Four have had their grubby hands in. There is one big issue that Gillard has refused to talk about during this campaign and is her disaster and that is the BER program that has wasted $4B and built tin sheds and small toilet blocks as class rooms, extremely poor out comes by the NSW Labor and the rhorting by the building companies and unions of our tax payers money. They have duded their own children and the future of our next generation.

Andy Mac,

fran bailey was missing from the vote which went on only one. There has never been any explanation for her absence. It was party room thuggery against a popular encumbent. Same as Rudd.

Your "big issue" is one of the reasons we don't have a recession, or do you deny even that?

This is just rabid & ill informed Labor bashing aimed to deflect debate from what a nightmare it will be if Mr Rabbott gets his hand on any power.

Won't be long before abortion and workchoices are on the agenda. Religous education mandatory in Government schools. The Queen back on all our walls. So much for individual rights......

I made a predicting cartoon on 11th. March 2010 that shows Kevin Rudd's pump-up suit deflating.
Hot air blowing out the valves shrinking his suit to the floor, rolling up his ALP emblem tie and exposing skinny Kevin Rudd's Skeleton. Lot's of my friends and follower have seen this predicting carton which was spot on in all details prior the happenings.
Well Julia Gillard's carton shows her joining the dole que behind the Spanish Matadors with the wounded bull.
Good by Julia..!
Labor party is dead like the Spanish bullfight..!
NO MORE EVER AGAIN..!
FINISH..!

How did our PM dodge a bullet? Labor is leaking badly. The problem is not that Julia questioned parental leave and $30 rise to pensioners. The problem is the reason why she questioned the rise? "Pensioners don't vote Labor anyhow". I see her in a different light now. Labor stuffs up the economy every time and we have nothing to show for it. The Asian Crisis was worse for Auz than the GFC and we didn't need the big debt. PM Abbot sounds good to me now.

People,
HELLO,Its just party polictics and both sides can be just as ruthless.
If you havent got the numbers,or know someone who has, you dont get the gig.
The 'Gillard faction' put Rudd up there & they won Govt...Rudd seemed to forget that,getting too obsessed in his own agenda.
Gillard has done the honourable thing getting us to an election quickly.
Cast your vote...

LNP was in power for a decade and gave pensioners nothing,except kerosene baths,Labour gave them a $30 rise almost immediately.

If Labor stuffs the economy, why according to the OECD, Australia is currently one of the healthiest countries, economically, throughout the world.?

Google that and educate yourself.

Hasn't anyone considered that the sustained attack on Julia Gillard is coming from a group of Religious Extremists, probably from all Parties?

Julia Gillard states that she will reveal her true personality, this is probably part of the theatrics. How can anyone really know what she stands for when she is acting all the time.

Chris,

Don't forget Julia opposed the pension rise because the pensioners didn't vote labour!!! and the $30 has been swollowed up as quickly as it was given.

Labour Has stuffed the economy as they had $20b+ in the bank when they took over and within months it had all gone and $40b debt took its place. If the $20b wasn't ther ti be spent I doubt we would have survived the way we have. so don't give Labour the credit for something they were given not earned.

What have they earned? a huge debt, $100b a week+ interest debt, hit the miners with a tax so they can look good, promise a ETS to fix the greatest moral dilema of our time and deliver a 150 community based think tank, BER thats under-delivers and over-priced, Pink bats that cost lives and millions in potential legal actions, A boat people fix that wasn't.

And now she wants us to see the real Julia, what does that mean? what we have seen ISN'T her? was she the stage managed puppet of the unions? so the polls show she is loosing ground so has to change tact. Also today she has unleashed the last card in her pack, get personal, Mr Abbott is fair game she says, well thats great isn't it, play the man NOT the ball, offer nothing but smear, the cupboard must be bare?? and we still have 3 weeks to go???

Is this Julias version of " I am not anybodies pupet"?

this will make sense to nsw readers anyway.

looking forward to seeing jules throwing the switch

If julia can't control her own party even if it is from
Religious extremists as RobetofGoonda proposes how is she going to operate a government?

She needs to find these people that are attacking her in her own party and put an end to them.

The problem with the Labor party is that it has many one timers in it and they all want to hold their acquired through Poor Final term choices by John Howard and the might of the media machine that was Kevin 07. As such they have no loyalty to their leader but only to their own pockets which will take a hit if they don't have the correct person in, Labor candidates are campaigning without referencing Labor or Gillard in an effort to get people to vote for them and not the party they are part of.

In response to Chris Norman and some others who claim that the pensioners got nothing under the coalition and plenty under Gillard....
Chris ACOSS has stated in the report reviewing the May 2009 budget that gave the increase of $33 that "Over the last decade, pensions rose by 20% in real terms"..This is also backed up by the FaHSCIA website where it can be seen that pensions are around $2000 higher now than what they would have been under the prefered labor methods of indexing the pension against CPI or ALCI....Along with this most of us that will rely on Super for future incomes instead of a pension we will now have less due to diminished earnings from blue chip investments such as BHP and RIO as they are paying an extra 30% tax on there profits...I dont even dare start on the impact state labor Govt's have had incuding the many freinds I have in QLD health that still have not been paid for months of work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The comments on this site at least have come from some thought. Give Gillard a Go! She was suddenly thrust into the Leadership of a great country. Give her time to "feel her way around". No-one knows how a new leader will perform until she is given the reins.

So far, she has my vote! She is an intelligent person who understands how to be cautious. What better leader could a nation have?

Mihughes of Grafton, you are so right! Where are the men or women of PRINCIPLE in either of the major Parties? Where is a Chifley or a Menzies? Or even a Fraser or a Hawke? The choice is clear, do we want an intellectual or a clown as our Prime Minister?

Tweedguy1, you leave our honourable State politicians alone. It wasn't their fault that Dept of Health employees wern't paid. It was God's will!!

RobertofGoodna,

Your kidding arn't you!! How could you say this when whe was deputy PM for 3 years and continually assured Kevin Rudd she was behind him 100%...Well she certainly was behind him...with a great big knife ready to stick into his back as soon as she got the chance....all she needed was a little shove from the union buddy power brokers in the labor party...I voted Kev07 but after 3 years of federal labour failures and 15 years of NSW and QLD labor failures I don't think Julia deserves my vote....

Oh RobertofGoodna, now we see just how valid your comments are when you excuse the qld govt for a significant and obviouse stuff up and blame of all things Gods will....go tell that to the 4 nurses I know personally that have either not been paid at all for months or are still owed substantial amounts by QLD Health....which is a QLD Gov't run body............

Are you going to back the QLD govt over the hard working nurses and doctors???

Do we want a interlectual or a clown? is asked , clowns have red hair don't they????

Latest polls have the clown 50/50 !!

Am not willing to give her a go just because she has been in charge for just a few weeks, she has been in charge for three years as part of the gang of 4, she is not new nor been thrust into the job she WANTED it and took it.

Oh Tweedyguy1, do you not recognise satire so thickly laid on? The QLD Health debacle had nothing to do with politicians, but with the deficient public servants they appointed. As a retired IT manager, I am utterly appalled at this issue. Muslims would say "If it happened then it was written." Christians would wring their hands and say "It must have been God's will."

Wake up, electors! The choice is between a highly intelligent female and a male buffoon. Even so, many rednecks would prefer the buffoon, simply because he is male.

AndyMac, the facts are that Turnbull was ousted by one single vote, when two members were not present.
Fraudulent election of Abbott?
Kevin Rudd stood down when he was shown that the numbers were against him.
Party Politics is simply a numbers game.

RobertofGoodna, by the sounds of it there are no issues or debacles that politicians are at fault for (so long as there Labor). One wonders what your reaction would have been if a coalition Govt was in at the tme. Ex IT manager you may be but you must also realise that like in big business (which Government realy is) the buck stops with the boss and in this case that is the government in charge that has been responsible for implementing these monumental stuff ups...

Tweedyguy, there are so many issues here. I. We Canetoads do not operate within the Westminster System, where a Minister has responsibility, and there is a House of Review. Would you like us to back to the Joh days and the infamous "Special Branch"?
How can anyone seriously consider having a Prime Minister who admits to having to go to a Jesuit priest in order to find out what he should think about an issue? Bring back a Menzies or a Fraser, with Black Jack McEwan or Doug Anthony, and I might vote for the LNP.

What a circus! Cognoscere primum rerum. (First of all, get your facts straight.) How fickle we are. Has Abbott's disgraceful conduct in pursuing Pauline Hanson been forgotten? A vengeful extremist religious lunatic?
This election should have been between Rudd and Turnbull.
Both major parties ruined that.
Let's go for honesty and truth: INDEPENDENT.

Alwayswatching from Grafton, Abbott has spent his whole political life smearing others with his religiously-inspired hatred. He has no answer to Gillard. So he is terrified of an open debate.