“The rule for the audience, is that it follows the current state of political polling; so, if the most recent poll shows the coalition to have 45% support, labor 35%, greens 10%, katter 5% and independent 5%; that will be the audience mix, within practicalities.”

Oh come off it. The people who go on Q&A aren’t stupid they know that the show has to reach it’s quota so when you order tickets they go “who do ya vote for?” do you reckon they are all going to answer Greens/Labor?

When you watch the show while there are certainly Lib supporters there and some swinging voters, 80% of the audience are either Labor or Greens hacks.

Jimmy’s point is relevant. A policy that can’t and won’t be implemented is hardly worthy of the name, but if that is sufficient to get your vote Wizz, then you must be over the moon at the state of the economy right now, with the best set of indicators in my lifetime.

But it’s not about rational analysis, it’s about the vibe.

Bernard, well said, it seems that we all got to this point long before this article was written.

The response to the election announcement has been puerile, with apologies to the puerile, and vapid, with apologies to the vapid.

Good to see News is contiuning is attack today, this time wheeling out the fool McCrann to label Gillard the worst PM ever - clowns.

Ballieu is now behind the ALP in Victoria and with reports today of 12,000 construction jobs to go because of a lack of infrastructure investment more questions will start being asked.

And have you thought of those 5 reasons to vote FOR Abbott yet?

Cando Newman and his LNP team is getting 55% TPP of the vote in polling in Queensland. This is now considered “good” for Labor by it’s supporters… this is real off the world kinda stuff.

I guess after seeing NSW numbers by comparison QLD looks like a ALP paradise… numbers there are in the 60’s.

The problem for Labor is they have a stench of corruption surrounding them now.. and the punters know exactly what you do with smelly rubbish, you put it out for collection get rid of them.

On channel 7 last night we had a live cross to parliament house where the question was posed “Is Gillard under real leadership threat” where the response was “There is no talk of a formal move but if the opinion polls like todays become a trend then yes” - which is based on what exactly? And how many moving parts are involved in that?

I issued this question to your alter ego last week and didn’t get a response but could you list 5 reasons to vote for Abbott, not vote Gillard out.

The ALP policy is to implement the Houston report.

And another Libs policy is the repealing of the Carbon tax and replacing it with “Direct Action”, the CSIRO, Al Gore and many other say Direct action won’t work and the size of land needed to plant the trees required is just too big plus paying money too polluters is an ineffective use of money.

On top of that Pyne last night all but admitted their superannuation payment for low income earners will go amongst other “compensation” realted to the MRRT and carbon tax.

So the question is how can these to examples even be considered policy when they just can’t work before you even consider the negative impacts they will have.

Taylormade - “Announcing the backflip on the budget surplus in the buildup to Christmas and whilst the PM was on leave is not treating the voters like adults” Why, is the PM the only person voters can take seriously, the treasurer isn’t senior enough? And why is the surplus not being achieved?
And how is the Libeeral party treating us like adults by claiming they can cut revenue, increase spending and deliver a bigger surplus and why in an economy experiencing slowing growth is a surplus a good thing?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/not-clean-not-dirty-turnbull-masters-inactivity/?wpmp_switcher=mobile