Gillard is claiming that voters want a ‘new politics’.
The Labor leader dismissed calls for a new election, arguing the people had spoken in delivering a hung parliament and “we have to make it work”.
Ms Gillard said she had put a substantial package of parliamentary reforms to the three rural independents who are likely to decide whether Labor or the Coalition forms a minority government.
Amazing the propensity of politicians to put words into the mouths of voters. I didn’t recall anyone on talk back radio, blog comments or any other media form calling for a hung parliament during the election. Can you? Every individual had their own reasons for voting. Our hung parliament is merely a statistical probability coming true. So let’s drop the oracle speak and deal with reality.
The ALP has been a very bad government led by two bad PMs. I can’t think of anything Rudllard did that either worked, was delivered on time or to budget. Can you?
What the shell shocked left-wing media is doing now is using the ALP’s failure in government to impinge the ability and competence of all politicians in parliament in order to keep Gillard in power. So runs the narrative: Abbott is guilty by association because he is a politician, the ALP may have been a bad government but all politicians are just as bad as each other, and both parties were uninspiring during election so vote Green (which is really a vote for the ALP), etc…
Painting Abbott with the same brush that painted the ALP government is grossly unfair and unbalanced. Abbott is not Rudd or Gillard and deserves to be treated differently, based on his record and what he has said and done in his recent political career. Consider that the ALP are the party that gave us Rudd and Latham. By contrast the Coalition gave us Howard and Menzies. Not all politicians are the same.