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Knifing him would be political suicide for the ALP. They need to give people reasons to trust the major parties again and knifing him would eradicate any trust they have rebuilt after the Rudd/Gillard years. If they get rid of him, you could see 20+ independants/Greens win seats in 2025.

It's not a huge win, but it's a sign of how things are trending as kickazz said. Distrust in major political parties is at an all time high and the ALP are probably the most likely to learn from that compared with the LNP. If their internal party feelings toward independants and minority parties...

Abbott has come in from 7.50 to 3.50 over the past few hours. Bookies usually know what's up, interesting few hours ahead.

I imagine swing voters are more likely to follow Turnbull than vote for Shorten. I wonder if Albo will use this as a way to knife Shorten.

He won't do it within 5 years and that is if it happens at all. History suggests it takes around 10 years for 1 million jobs to be created, with around half of them being part-time.

Q&A is by far the biggest example of potential ABC bias toward the left with Tony Jones constantly interrupting right-wing politicians. Just have a look at these statistics: Between February 2009 and November 2013, members of the Coalition made 136 appearances on Q&A to the ALPs 126. Despite...

I highly doubt the ALP thought Abbott would accept that offer. At least this way they can argue that they tried to offer an alternative, but were shot down.

No need to be so pessimistic.

I read somewhere that it would take about a month all together, but don't quote me on that.

Is SJ an Iraqi refugee?

Sure, but the issue is that there is a very slim chance of Alabanese ever becoming PM. Only 3 first term opposition leaders have ever become PM, which suggests Shorten could be leader the next time the ALP has a strong chance of winning an election. I don't imagine that will be until at least 2019.

It absolutely happened and you can't possibly refute this.

I don't think the ALP can rebuild with the guy who had a major input into the knifing of two PM's as the leader.

University of Newcastle.

Yeah, it was odd. It's a class on regime change, but I still thought she would have known.

I agree with DeanoT. Preferential voting is an issue. In my political science lecture at Uni today, we discussed the election and the topic of the minor parties came up. Nobody knew (including the lecturer) how minor parties could get a senate seat until I explained it. I'm not sure what the...

I actually received an email during the election from a friend who supports the LDP with this image attached:

Yep, which is why a lot of younger voters like him.

Agreed, which is strange considering Turnbull is anti-union and supports privatization. I suppose wearing a leather jacket on Q&A raises your profile.

I would say that the majority of the younger generation care more about the theatrical aspect of politics, rather than actual policies. Its no surprise that they dislike Abbott due to his stance on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion, etc.

Get Murdoch to buy some new servers.

I'm looking forward to Tony Jones interrupting someone every 5 minutes.

LNP are also apparently a fascist party now too, if these street signs near my early polling booth are anything to go by.

I imagine there will be a few people voting for the LNP because they don't want a woman as PM.

Abbott comes across as a lot more sincere than Rudd. I doubt he is, but he certainly looks like it.

How is this supposed to stop people smuggling/boats? It's a policy aimed at the racist morons in this country who basically read "Asylum seekers won't end up in Australia" and so they praise Rudd.

I'm of the opinion that the only way we can truly resolve this refugee issue is by airing more Phillip Ruddock films.

Hassan Ayoub was jailed in Perth back in 2004 for people smuggling. http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/People-smuggler-sentenced/2004/12/16/1102787194901.html?from=moreStories

That's how you win the youth vote, Rudd, rather than legalizing gay marriage.

I did enjoy the FB comments about how Sharia Law was imminent now that there is a Muslim on the frontbench.