The people's assembly? We vote for the House of Representatives, and Julia Gillard is no Kevin Rudd who had popular appeal in the electorate last time. New Lamps for old, what a rort. She thinks that people will wreck a perfectly good car to get $2000 for a new car! So they trade it in for a new car, and that means that good old bomb will be resold by the dealer, and that means more cars on the road! Where are they getting the further $20k
for a new car eh?

Can't stand Julia, her personal presentation has been improved since she became PM though, but I still remember how she said her historical political hero was Nye Bevan. Geesus he was a marxist old school socialist, a drunk, and approved of Mosely at one time and the Communist Party. His only saving grace was he introduced the NHS and was Welsh, like her heritage.

If the country votes in the ALP again, we are doomed.

Even the worm tonight on NBN favored the PM, how they came to that result I don't know! It certainly seemed to heavily
favor Tony Abbott to me, particularly as he was more suscinct in his answers, where July gave us a lot of popular
political gobblegook.

It was remarkable to watch Tony Abbott pursue the drivel that he calls an election platform tonight: prices have gone up, and are going to go up further, under Labor (which I notice has now supplanted the 'faceless' activities of the unions in Liberal-speak -- also, was it his own party that introduced the GST, which had such a dramatic effect on prices?), a 'green army' that will address climate change (echoing the UK Conservatives' 'let's cut all services and pass the costs on to "Big Society" to manage'), and 'the boats are still coming' (yes, a few thousand boatpeople, while your own former government loosened regulations for overseas students to finish their courses and apply for PR in unprecedented numbers -- I have nothing against that, mind you, but the Liberal Party should be honest about what their motives were in that regard when they were in power -- quick profit, speedy boost to the labour force, or 'social vision'?). And his own daring vision? Let's tax big business to introduce paid maternity leave in such a way as to inevitably pass on the costs to 'Big Society'. I don't for a moment begrudge those who are likely to take that maternity leave, it's just the sheer hypocrisy of a man who has trumpeted that the proposed levy on the mining industry is an unfair tax. Abbott seems to have no vision beyond securing his own: the Lodge.