Federal Election date

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From an ALP MP insider....this is an unmitigated disaster

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I hope Corey Bernadi is given the ministry of hunting down leftards.
I'd work for free

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A senior government source, citing the lessons of Bob Hawke's eight-week election in 1984, said announcing the election date had handed Mr Abbott the mantle of alternative prime minister, and he could be given equal time.

Another described Ms Gillard's decision as the "wackiest" performance since Humprey Bogart played the paranoid and dangerous Captain Queeg in Caine Mutiny.

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Yet another Gillard own goal as scored by their own side
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Gillard heads into dangerous waters
I HAVE run up the white flag. I am obviously past it because I simply don't understand Labor politics any more.

Given that greater minds than mine were no doubt applied to the announcement of an election date eight months in advance, I can only wonder what these higher intelligences were thinking.

In the hours after the announcement so many senior Labor figures rang me to express their bewilderment, dismay and disgust that at least I had one consolation - I was not alone in my ignorance and lack of understanding. I was in the best of company.

Gillard just sunk the early election option for Rudd. She has given the caucus something else to ponder.

Tony Abbott can now plan his campaign with a certainty that no opposition leader in our history has ever had. The spending of every dollar, the appearances in every marginal seat, the fundraising, the advertisements, the timing of every policy release (they may lack detail but they will be called "policies") - this is a gift to the opposition the like of which we have never seen before.

When I balance the pros and cons I come back to where I started. I just can't follow why this Labor government and this Prime Minister does what it does. It is a mystery to me and to millions of Australians as well

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[Super Nova]

I find the betting public a good indicator of the future.

Looking better for the Coalition if the punters are right... as usual... still early days though.

Punters put money on Coalition
THE Coalition may soon hit Black Caviar odds of winning the election, with Sportsbet.com.au spokesman, Haydn Lane, saying the odds of a win to the opposition had shortened in the hours following the election announcement.

"The Coalition were at $1.30, but by late in the afternoon they were at $1.25, so punters would get a 25¢ return for every dollar bet.

"They'll be hitting Black Caviar odds in the near future if this keeps up, with the thoroughbred installed at $1.15 for its race in February."

Labor was at $3.75 yesterday afternoon.

Bets on which month an election would be called had stagnated until early this morning, when there was a flurry of bets on September, its odds shortening from $1.67 to $1.50.

"Clearly, some people were in the know," Mr Lane said.

Meanwhile the Sportingbet Australia chief executive, Michael Sullivan, said Tony Abbott's odds of winning were slashed from $1.26 into $1.22 on Wednesday.

"We actually thought there would be some support for the ALP after the announcement but they've drifted from $3.75 to $4.15 and we can't find anyone interested in backing them," Mr Sullivan said.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politi ... z2JT8cWUgp

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Monks imaginary bet will be giving giving him heartburn

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In other news, the ALP and the Greens have combined to masturbate on/with a sacred cross before the election on Yom Kippur in a display of solidarity with Palestinians so that the leftists and gays can all hope for their rounding up to be shoved into cattle carts for their dispersion to the Labor 'education camps'

No need to worry if you identify as a black or Jew...you cant be prosecuted under the Roxon laws, but if you you aren't, god help you- Roxons shitty lawya mates are looking for a pay cheque.

Who. The. Fuck. Voted. These. Dickheads. In!!!!

[Neferti]

IQ, I thought that the ALP always had a MASS DEBATE. Remember Whitlam and the Maintain the Rage?

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IQ, I thought that the ALP always had a MASS DEBATE. Remember Whitlam and the Maintain the Rage?

It looks IQ was a Whitlam follower given his tanties then.

[Rorschach]

Green support is going down Skip. Why do you think that is?