Big Doings Down Under

[Justtristo]

Well as your resident Lib-Party member, let me offer a small piece of opinion!

The ALP have now knifed 3 of their last 4 prime ministers: Hawke, Rudd, Gillard. They did it to themselves.

So I'm not surprised that Rudd hasn't offered his policies - the ones that are vitally different to what the Australian public is currently fed up with, but I can't stress the point enough that the actual policies themselves have nothing whatsoever to do with this. And that I think is what is so corrupt and dishonourable about the whole thing. All it's about is trying to "win the game". Well that's fine if you're playing games, but it's not fine if you're trying to govern a democratic country.

Actually I believe the happenings federally over the last few years are a result of the amount of attention paid to opinion polls. The bad run of opinion polls was in my opinion contribution to both the replacement of Kevin Rudd with Julia Gillard, along with Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott.

I would argue that at a state level the same phenomenon is occurring as well. Because my state's former Liberal premier Ted Baillieu if he had not decided to step down voluntarily, would have been deposed in the same way both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were.

All up I believe all of this is a result of the dominance of career politicians (who have done very little in their lives outside politics in some capacity) have gained over our state and federal parliaments.

BTW: I am a pox on both their houses type of person when it comes to Australia's major parties, at this forthcoming election I will be voting for the Wikileaks Party.