2013 Federal election - Rudd sets date as 7th September

[Jimmy_041]

Nothing wrong with Murdoch when he helped Whitlam get in?

[cripple]

Nothing wrong with it, just a shame that a great proportion of australians cant see through the spin and take it as gospel. Problem when to few people have too much power.

[Q.]

Nothing wrong with Murdoch when he helped Whitlam get in?

He's a power tripper. Knows he can influence elections, wants to influence election and does. Whether that be in Rudd's favour in '07, or Abbott's in '13.

[Jimmy_041]

Yep - neither side can complain

[Q.]

Everyone should complain. With their wallets.

[Jimmy_041]

and they are.......
Circulation is going down - I might buy The Advertiser and Sunday Mail every second week and refuse to subscribe to the digital version.
But neither political party can complain because they use the media 24/7 to manipulate us at every opportunity.
The media is a beast that can turn on its master, and it has for Labor, but Labor attacked Murdoch as well.

As for a cafe refusing to provide a newspaper Who gives a flying f***

[The Apostle]

Heard that former Queensland ALP Premier Peter Beattie is now a candidate for September 7.

The Fraser Island Dingo Killer himself...

[The Apostle]

refuse to subscribe to the digital version.

Just go on the Adelaide Now website and click on any story and if it hits the pay wall just change the "adelaidenow" part of the URL to "news"...

[Bully]

Heard that former Queensland ALP Premier Peter Beattie is now a candidate for September 7.

The Fraser Island Dingo Killer himself...

correct he is, the LNP in QLD rumoured to be running scared because of it for some reason. His wife will have a say also

[Bully]

tony abbott and Campbell newman out for a run this morning in Brisbane. Funny seeing all the news crews running along with them.

Abbott has described some parts of outback Australia as "Somalia without the guns"

[cripple]

tony abbott and Campbell newman out for a run this morning in Brisbane. Funny seeing all the news crews running along with them.

Abbott has described some parts of outback Australia as "Somalia without the guns"

I wonder what Tony would do about that. To be honest, neither party seems to show much interest in what happens outside of Sydney.

[Bully]

tony abbott and Campbell newman out for a run this morning in Brisbane. Funny seeing all the news crews running along with them.

Abbott has described some parts of outback Australia as "Somalia without the guns"

I wonder what Tony would do about that. To be honest, neither party seems to show much interest in what happens outside of Sydney.

my point continually that there is more to life than western Sydney. Yes, 2 million people do live in western Sydney, but 21 million other Australians don't.

[Gozu]

Good to see on the news Bob Hawke out campaigning for Garrett's replacement in Kingsford-Smith.

[cripple]

Who will watch the debate tomorrow night. I really dont think there is much that either leader will discuss tomorrow night that we dont already know. If i were Tony Abbott, i would start really publicising some of his new policies at events such as this, try to provoke a positive vibe ater being Mr No for the past 6 years. I dont think it will happen, but would be good to see none the less.

[Gozu]

Who will watch the debate tomorrow night. I really dont think there is much that either leader will discuss tomorrow night that we dont already know. If i were Tony Abbott, i would start really publicising some of his new policies at events such as this, try to provoke a positive vibe ater being Mr No for the past 6 years. I dont think it will happen, but would be good to see none the less.

I will be, 6pm live on the ABC.

[Psyber]

The debates and constant media posturing bore me to tears.
They are about transient appearances to con the swinging voter, not the fundamentals of each party's long term core beliefs.

I'd need a lot of convincing by observing behaviour over time, not a few promises on the media, to change my levels of trust in any party.
I agree with bits of all their core platforms and the ABC's Voting Compass picked my trust levels fairly well for each.

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I've added my location chart showing my rather Centrist position on this scale, which puts more emphasis on economic orientation than the other scales. The American politicalslant.org scale lined me up with the Aussie Greens, and the Australian Liberal Democrats one which picked me as a Social Democrat - both left of the ALP on their scales. (I probably am left of the ALP except on the issue of acceptable level of debt.)

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[The Apostle]

^ Here's mine:

[GWW]

I wonder if "the worm" will make an apearance this year

[cripple]

Is that the left leaning worm that tony was talking about? I think a lot of the networks will be using Twitter to decide a winner

[Sky Pilot]

My profile on that abc site was similar