Just on your comment (1) is Abbott really the no, no, that we are told about. For instance, Gillard says that her government have passed 237 pieces of legislation in the lower house. It is beyond comprehension that the Coalition has voted 237 times against all legislation. I'd like to know what the Opposition has voted in favour of, and wonder if it is the MSM (or Labor) that suppresses this information. Give Abbott a go I say, and don't believe all you are told.

Valda : In my eyes and in the eyes of more than I can count..Tony Abbott IS Mr Negative. His continual and unabated negativity towards reforms that even Blind Freddy would recognise is the ball and chain around the neck of the LNP. Jolly Joe Hockey has proven himself on numerous ocassions to be an inept and bumbling clod when it comes to anything even remotely linked to the economy. I won't even mention the sad and sour relics of the Howard era that populate TA's front bench. The LNP needs a clean sweep and getting rid of Abbott, Both Bishops, Hockey whilst denouncing the hypocritical shock jocks Jones and Hadley. It is not so much the Labor Party needs to renew..it is the LNP, they have become so accustomed to being in power that when they are in Opposition they all collectively behave like spoilt brats.