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I reckon you covered the fact that Liberals are liars when you said that they lied.Pleasant and affable doesn't cut it in the adversarial environment that is politics. Particularly when you have a PM who is a pathological liar and who will plumb the depths to retain office. Labor needs a Keating like political street fighter in the Parliament and someone in the administration who will make the calls on the Liarberals lies and deceit which are commonly put out there via advertising and public relations.
Tony Abbott was as good a street fighter as any have ever been in opposition, and look at the mess he is now.
Whilst Labor needs someone with a bit of personality, a far bigger priority is finding someone who actually knows what the party stands for and is willing to tell us.
I voted Coalition last Federal election, but my vote is very much up in the air this time around.
Loathe this current government as we all do, however, the one thing that can be said for them is that they know what their priority is - getting the economy to surplus. The way they are getting there is controversial, but it almost becomes acceptable to the masses when you have the dour faced wet rag standing opposite Abbott and drawling "we're very concerned with the cuts to X, Y, Z".
Unless Labor had a scheme in place to keep Abbott in for the election - though do their leaders strike you as intelligent enough to construct one - they have been derelict in their duty to properly scrutinise the government. Pedestrian TV, Junkee and the ABC can't be the only ones doing it - especially when you consider how silly these publications - regrettably in the case of the latter - have become.
I really don't want to vote for the Liberals again, and if Labor doesn't get its act together I'll probably go with a minority group like the one led by Fiona Patten. Having said that, though, I'm a bit miffed by the idea that Labor's grand plan is taxing superannuation whilst knocking back reductions to things like foreign aid. The money has to be saved somewhere, and it makes me uncomfortable to think that years worth of saving from members of the community with some economic sense may be removed from them because they've yet to spend it. Especially when you consider that you can't put a time frame on an individuals life, and that people need their savings and deserve their savings to help validate their life's work and allow them to live comfortably as they age should they have the means to do it.
Its lazy politics, and its s**t politics. Almost as s**t as deregulation.