ELECTION 2010: It's a hung Parliament

god help us and spare us from abbott and bishop , the mad monk and the funnell web in tights !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very well said rodger!

Noooo god save us from GILLARD and Swan who nearly lost his seat last night!

greens are terrible that want us back to the stone age. Labour are putting us into huge debt, the NBN is useless and the mining tax is so bad.
coalition are amazing but there the best of the worst

We don't want Abbott in by any means. Just because Rudd messed up doesn't mean Gillard or labor for that matter will do the same. People have very short memories and need to remember that liberal have always screwed Australians over and that everything works on a 5yr plan, meaning that some of the stuff ups in Rudds time was due to liberal.

All true

The Labor governmenet does not deserve to be there at all without the preferences from the Greens Julie Gillard would be out on the ear, The people really gave Gillard the biggest message they could, but what a shame she didn't get booted out completely. God help us with the Greens with the balance of power.

labor will get the independents vote gillard will throw any amount of money to there electorate not bothered where it comes from

Wow the stupidity of this is unbeleiveable. Rudd wasnt the one just making calls its also the LABOR PARTY who help making these hopeless decisions. I find it hard to beleive that some people cant see that labour when everything goes wrong just chuck out their leader! In NSW there has been about 4 or 5 leader changes in 10 years just because somebody screwed up, now Gillard goes and stabs Rudd in the back because he screwed up. Says everything you need to know about the labour party in my opinion.

God help us if Big Ears gets in. We're not going forward, we're heading back to the fifties again. So, Australia, you voted for Big Ears and his Budgie Smugglers...why, oh why vote for such an idiot who doesn't have a clue in managing the economy?

The people who even bothered to vote, I know of a dozen who did informals really let the Govt know they are not happy. Gillard is well spoken but I didnt vote for her, I voted for Rudd. Labor was given a surplus at the end of Liberals reign and has riddled us with debt in a very short 3 years. Thats Labor's track record. Ask Bob Hawke and Paul Keating all about the "no child will live in poverty"and the "recession we just all had to have". So what if we were saved from recession with a stimulus package, oh btw I saw bugger all of that money, were now in so much debt its ridiculous.

god help the working class if idiot abbott gets in

Gillars is to politics and the Australian society as cancer is to a man , thus she should not even have had the thought of being a "politician" or "leading" a garage sale let alone aspire to lead a nation. What a sad and appalling state this country is in. Abbot is decades ahead, make no mistake, he is able as both a real and natural leader and a respectable role model for your sons and daughters. I find the fact that people have discounted character and morality for the sake of a party absolutely pathetic ! No excuses.

Hey Stella...

"meaning that some of the stuff ups in Rudds time was due to liberal."

can you provide a legitimate example please?

Agree Peter, yes Stella, enlighten us as to how the shambolic nature of Australian politics is the Coalition's fault?

1. School Halls Rip off
2. Proposed Mining Tax threatening to cripple our prosperity
3. Home insulation scheme killing Australians and burning down homes.
4. Fiscal mismanagement, eliminating the surplus, creating debt, and four consecutive rate rises to control inflation.

Tell us Stella, what part did the liberals play in that?

Gee the people of QLD are busting to get their kids back on work contracts but let me tell you QLD I get payed way less due to howards doing as for the woman of this country we need a woman at the helm for a change.

sure neither party is particularly desirable but the labor party has previously killed people with their carelessness, openly lied to australia and have kept us in a huge debt. so now that rudd and gillard have messed up our country its time for abbott to come in and fix it up.
oh and just because theres a woman that leads it now, doesnt mean the party has changed!

Morals and ethics is good. Your child waiting behind 1.2 million new Australians over the next 4 years using infrastructure like hospitals is bad bad bad.

Labor can't afford infrastructure upgrades for migrants even if you could dictate where they will live. The debt their bad ideas make is slavery others will have to work to pay off. Not good.

All this talk about Labor putting us in debt is f**king ridiculous, the fact is that during the global financial crisis Australia did BETTER than ANY other advanced country in the WORLD, and the stimulus package plan that they used to achieve this was openly opposed by the liberal party, i thank god that Rudd won in 2007 cause otherwise most of us here would not have jobs right now because of the economic stupidity of the liberal party, god help us if Abbot gets in,

oh and one more thing "work-choices"

Christine - "The Labor governmenet does not deserve to be there at all without the preferences from the Greens"

The Liberals would never get in if they wern't in a "Coalition".

Hopefully when Australia is a republic the voting system changes to one vote per person; preferences are stupid.

we need labour and its vision for our childrens future , we need the mining tax, we need the big pond upgrade, we dont wont to go back to work choices or what ever mr abbott wants to call it... we need a future one that mr abbott and the liberals cant give us...

Phew, hopefully we can now escape the 40billion dollar pricetag for a nationaly broadband ferrari when all we need is a holden, not to mention having every street ripped up to lay the cables.

10RedDog
Sun 22/08/2010 - 14:16
God help us if Big Ears gets in. We're not going forward, we're heading back to the fifties again. So, Australia, you voted for Big Ears and his Budgie Smugglers...why, oh why vote for such an idiot who doesn't have a clue in managing the economy?

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I laugh at the stupidity of labor and their supporters, Yes we are going back to the 1950's With labor i agree.Tony Abbot is actruly one of a few members of parliment who actruly studied and has a degree in economics.

Let me simplify this for the idiots out there
Stong Economy = money, money can be exchanged for goods and services. Labor goverment has negative money...

Now if you think the useless prick swanny is even cabable of holding up a lollypop sign on the highway let alone the 13th biggest economy in the world then i honestly feel sorry for you.

well said jay.unfortunately there are too many naive brainwashed people like elliot out there who also have the right to vote whos iq dosent jusify it and oh..wasnt a faster cable network one of labors 07 promises ????

20Elliott
Sun 22/08/2010 - 16:04
All this talk about Labor putting us in debt is f**king ridiculous, the fact is that during the global financial crisis Australia did BETTER than ANY other advanced country in the WORLD, and the stimulus package plan that they used to achieve this was openly opposed by the liberal party, i thank god that Rudd won in 2007 cause otherwise most of us here would not have jobs right now because of the economic stupidity of the liberal party, god help us if Abbot gets in,

oh and one more thing "work-choices"
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Stimulas packages DID NOT WORK in the vast majority of countries suffering for the GFC. What makes you think dumping cash did a thing? Sportsbet posted record profits that year i will add.

Labor put us in deficit a country that had billions of hard earned dollars stored away was complelty blown away over night. Shame.

Lets keep it real people, Libs gave us huge needed change, new global competitiveness and actually laid a platform for the GFC spending spree, and with all that surplus, Labour poorly managed Australia. Australia is 1 trillion dollar business that needs competetant mangement. Labour has a reckless history and combined with Greens that have NO financial credentials....lets be serious

25simon
Sun 22/08/2010 - 17:14

To quote you Simon "I laugh at the stupidity of labor and their supporters"....

Lets now look at some of the rest of your statement...."Tony Abbot is actruly one of a few members of parliment who actruly studied and has a degree in economics.......Now if you think the useless prick swanny is even cabable of holding up a lollypop sign on the highway let alone the 13th biggest economy in the world then i honestly feel sorry for you."

I have to laugh at your stupidity. It concerns me that uneducated people ACTUALLY have a right to vote...maybe they aren't CAPABLE of voting. If spelling is such an issue for Liberal voters what could they possibly understand about politics?

So would you like to take back your comment about labor voters and their stupidity???

we should have kept k rudd, he had the best plan for australia then any other pm ever, the mining tax would have worked great, poorer people would have benefited from it instead of clive palmer and his other fat rich cronies getting richer , all the construction and infer structure and hospital that have started in the last 3 years keeping jobs going for tradies and crane drivers ect, speedo man will destroy us and rich will get richer and poor poorer, labor will provide more jobs even work rights and a better future but it should be rude, hope speedo man ends up like jfk if he is elected

Spelling? Stupidity?
The real issue for die-hard labour relics is that management is a skill for dedicated and committed professionals, I admit there are some excellent ppl in labour.....just not the ones that have any real influence. All jokes aside labour has a history of "removing" obstacles, do you really think the caucus wouldnt do over Gillard in heart beat?........just look at NSW.....what a joke. Too concerned about the job and not the objective. If she was so great......why are we in a hung parliament? Labour managed only to hold to seats through so-called preferences with the Greens.....A unit with no political credibility

@marshall comment 11 Hawke and Keating did say some stupid things didn't they? but hey they also inherited double digit unemployment and inflation and also a huge debt from a goverment that had a man you may recall by the name of John Howard as treasurer. Its easy to have a surplus when you SELL everything like Telstra just to name one thing. If I sold everything I had i'd have nice surplus too

poor old nardy nardy
We had more growth during liberals reign. More surplus, mor stability. Labour has and will continue to send us back 50 years, run by unions...god help us if Gillard forms a govermnent.
Time is a wonderful tool......

I can't believe people think voting for a misogynist who cant even construct a sentence properly and OUTRIGHT said you cant believe everything he said is ok. Abbott will cut our healthcare budget, at least Gillard was putting more money into Australia's current nurse shortage. Abbott is a idiot and I'd be embarrased to say I was Australian if that's the kind of leader Australians have decided should run our country. It's 2010 not 1950. Some people should also do their research on Australia's current debt and economy before making their inaccurate judgements

Im glad they got in and cleaned up lots of schools, if the libs get in now they will stop improving anything and save the money for a rainy day. Wako

Why folk voted for Labour again this time is beyond me. Blind freddy can see after the last 3 years what they stand for (if you did not already know it) -massive new taxes on our best performing industry, killing it and jobs; huge wasteful spending in all areas, which inevitably pushes interest rates up; total incompetence in the delivery of anything-they are just lurching from one disaster to the next, boat people, BER, Batts, CPRS, Mining Tax; this latter stupidity finally resulting in such unpopularity of Rudd that he was knifed by the unseen people who are really in control of the Labour party -the unions. Labour even seem to think that their very wasteful 'stimulous' spending saved the economy! What dreamers. How they got even 36% of the vote is a big surprise to me.

The NBN is their latest brainwave, all $43,000,000,000 of it: In round figures, there are 22 million people in Australia, this means a spend of $2,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. For us, a family of 5, this means that this next Labour government's stupendous planned waste of taxpayers money will cost us $10,000 of more debt; NO THANKS!
Yes, some other countries have NBN -like Singapore, but someone should tell the Labour party that there is a slight difference in the size of our country and theirs.

On top of that they are planning more $680,000 tiny school sheds, and a massive new carbon tax, designed to hit our power stations and the contained energy costs in everything we buy; this will raise prices on just about everything, and will certainly not change the climate one iota.

Robert Holmes

i dont know why everyone carnt just agree polliticians only look after polliticians and of coarse the wealthy 10 percent the rest of us are just labour cattle that they syphon money out of to promote what ever comes into thier hairbrained scheems to ripp off as many as they can they honestly dont give 2 crapps bout the average ozy

If there's one obvious thing in this discussion here is that the majority of you people commenting can't spell. It's LABOR not LABOUR!

I'm thinking of starting a new political Party called "The Leisure Party". Major reforms involve a four day working week for everyone and 20 Public Holidays per year. Anyone found working more than 4 days in a row will be fined along with their employer.
6 weeks Annual Leave. Yes I can hear you all saying "who's going to fill in for all those extra working hours?"
Well for one you can still do 4 days per week at 10hrs per day and any shortfall in the workforce (eg Overtime) could be filled by all those Boat People heading to our shores now :-)

My vote is Liberal.
Why? Because when labor put Australia into debt, liberal pulled us out.
As for the gfc, and the stimulus package.... where did labor get the money for it? Thats right, the surplus that liberal left behind.
Also I did not get why people in the UK (Travellers) were also getting the handouts for helping with the GFC. That money shouldve stayed in Australia.
Not only did it help that Australia was in surplus, but banks had a lot to do with helping with the GFC, by ensuring our funds were secured.
Overseas, banks went under because of the way they were borrowing and investing money, whereas in Australia it was fairly safe. Now with the debt, who is going to pay it?

firstly, the reason our banks didnt go under was because they are regulated so heavily in Australia that they can't do what the banks in the US and other countries did (thank god for that).

that said, Tony Abbott admitted that his predicted spending on stimulus should he have been in power, was only 6 billion less than Labor actually spent. That's not that big a difference when you consider that this is a main point of contention for liberal voters.

also, when people say that we are in "so much debt it's ridiculous," we're really not. our public debt is aroung 6% of GDP, which is minimal compared to so many other countries. so Labor didn't actually dig us into massive debt, despite what Liberal wants you to think.

so i voted Labor, not only for the NBN (which is definitely necessary for the future growth of this country, plus will last 50 years and is very easily upgradeable to almost however much bandwidth we want/need) but also because i honestly hate both Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party due to their blatant ignorance of the tech sector, and the fear campaigns they run about Labor.

that said, you vote is up to you, just as mine is up to me, and whoever you voted for, you made your choice :)

I was shocked to see no representation for the Liberal Party at my voting venue on Saturday at Green Valley. It was all Labour.
People are like sheep, especially if their English is not so good. They are given the Labour paper to say how to vote and that is exactly what most of them did. I walked along to see if there was anyone giving out Liberal Papers and saw no-one. How do you expect to get in when all anyone sees is Labour plaques and people giving out Labour papers. Most of the people in my electorate were from an Arabic background and their English is limited. I would say I saw at least 10 couples walk in and sign off and then walk out without filling out any papers at all. That is such a shame when we should embrace our right to vote.

The last 3 years of Government has shown us what? 1. How to say sorry, 2. How to keep houses warm by burning them down, 3. How to throw money away, 4. How to stab your leader in the back, 5. that about the extent of it really. Where are all the great election promises from the last election that the Rudd/Gillard/Labour party promised.
Just because Gillard ousted Rudd does not make the Labour party any more stable, they still have the same bad integrity and view, just an annoting new leader to stuff them up.
Look at a Liberal leadership, results (May not always please everyone) Money in the kitty, jobless rate down, low interest rates, booming economy etc. Abbott wears speedos, shows he has got balls, where are Gillard's ball (Hanging from her ears I presume?

god help us if the Gillard goverment gets in! they are so unorganised.. and like whats was said on 60mins 2weeks ago by Pauline Hanson! why did Julia Gillard lead the Labour goverment to the election and not Kevin Rudd! Labour not cool!! Tony Abbott Liberal 3 cheers for them and lets hope its Liberal and not Labour!!

Dear SpellCheck, you may spell it L-A-B-O-R if you like, but I spell it D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R.

Stella, where has your head been?

"Just because Rudd messed up doesn't mean Gillard or labor for that matter will do the same."

Ever heard of the BER? Pure Gillard, and yet another colossal stuff-up. In a way I look forward to Gillard getting in again so that in 12 months time we can all say, "Told you so" after they've wasted billions on another doomed project, this stupid NBN.

RedDog - Pot calling Kettle - how you can say that Abbott hasn't got a clue about running the economy after Labor's monumental cock-ups of the past 21/2 years? Oh yes, I forgot Labor saved us from the GFC, by spending recklessly on pink batts, killing people in the process, building school buildings that didn't need building. spending millions on websites that were never launched (fuel/grocery watch), didn't they? Labor's answer to everything is to just chuck loads of taxpayer's money at it in the hope that some of it will stick.

Even Gillard said that waste didn't matter. Stupid woman.

L - Labor,
A - A
B - Broken
O - Old
R - Record

Those of you who are still NBN supporters should read the IT section of this Tuesday's AUSTRALIAN. Wrote by a real tech-head (Dave Stevens) it tells of the true cost to us taxpayers of the NBN. He provides an estimate of $64 Billion (in a best case) and $124 Billion (worst case) scenario.
He says it is like providing every person with a Rolls Royce (at taxpayers expense) -even if they can't drive or don't want to drive!
Waste on this scale will make the batts and BER messes look like small beer.

I know there is a problem in the bush with internet speeds, but this solution is absolutely way, way beyond both what we can afford, and what is really required.

If the government really has this kind of money to spend, (which they haven't -they are just going to borrow it) I can think of far better ways to spend it.

i.e.
Social uses;
-Hospitals
-Train more doctors/nurses
-Skill up Australians (reduces unemplyment and immigration)

If you want to cut CO2 emissions, no big new taxes are needed, just government investment in;
-Carbon capture and storage technology
-Solar hot water for all (this alone will reduce Australia's CO2 emissions by 7%)
-Fast rail between all east coast cities (slashes travel emissions)
-Put freight back onto rail (only 1% of non-bulk freght now goes by rail, -trains use only 30% of the fuel that a truck does per ton transported which = 30% of the emissions)
-VAM gas mitigation (for UG coal mines)
-Hot rock technology (base load renewable power)

These measures could easily reduce our emissions by 20% by 2020 without any carbon tax.

Robert Holmes

Should all governments learn lessons what a cause of Australia historical hung parliament?

Australia citizens now enter a very challenging political era for 70 years in the 2010 federal election, many reforms are demanding by voters are looking for a change with anger to share fairer resources supplied lives from the first term of government?

Voters handed down their decisive votes during election time are looking for an efficient, effective and economically run government. A high transparency in less mistaken caused processing under no discriminately enforced services government. A long term wealth creative vision with fast action moving forward progressing resulting value add to voters benefits in each term of governing.

Voters are crying for action right now to have improved resources support lives that suppose lead by a government in the following eight commitments:

1. What vision of prosperity voters seen?
2. Why action not enough in the past 3 years?
3. How many election promises has been fulfilled?
4. Where productivity motivation to voters?
5. What materials to speed up election promises processing?
6. Why some election promises in powerless process?
7. How far transparency in each department service voters wanted?
8. Where prioritized direction to empowerment the nation?

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

Which party danger Australia’s social fabric?

Australia citizens now enter a very challenging political era for 70 years in the 2010 federal election, many reforms are demanding by voters are looking for a change with anger to share fairer resources supplied lives from the first term of government?

Australia social fabric repair long over due?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?

● Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
● Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
● Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
● Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
● Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive,
● Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

Will Julia Gillard’s Labor Party government fixed voters voices, pains and crying?

Australia citizens now enter a very challenging political era for 70 years in the 2010 federal election, many reforms are demanding by voters are looking for a change with anger to share fairer resources supplied lives from the re-elected Labor government?

Australia social fabric repair long over due? The historical hung parliament demonstrated deep in voter’s heart a fixed must to carry on in vision and action immediately:

Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?

1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

What tells of 2010 Australia historical hung parliament?

The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from poor/less wealth off?

Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?

1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

What democratic societies should learn lessen from Australia election 2010:
1. What creative vision of Gillard Labor government’s nation-building agenda without support to Australian Inventors?
The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap in 70 years of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from individual poor/less wealth off?

Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?

1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.

Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

What democratic societies should learn lessen from Australia election 2010:
1. What productive action has PM Julia Gillard in office 100 days?
When inflation is a looming threat, with the nation's CPI growing by 3.5 per cent year on year - a 22-month high - just last month.
When ultimately slow down the country's growth and subsequently hose down the demand for Australian commodities.
The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from individual poor/less wealth off?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?
1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.
Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)

Why believe coalition Supporting Local Communities?
It’s all about power and money most Politicians and parties wanted above all and after all election?
Just listen how Barry O'Farrell convincing voters: “Over the last four years I announced positive and practical policies which will help support local communities……..” .
Take a look below the link subject: “Time for Action” in “Healthy Active Life” program that convert Broken hill into a Healthy Las Vergas Broken Hill economy? Link with http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/showPost.cfm?bid=20747&mycomm=ES
... , will you then still believe Barry O'Farrell’s announced positive and practical policies which will help support local communities……..” ?
Will you also believe there were only 1-2 Politicians responding to this greatest “Healthy Las Vergas Broken Hill economy model”?
Why the most Politicians do fail their own test in support community health/economic development who with$1.65 million Tax payer’s money each annual spending for?
Masealake (Member of Inventor Association QLD)