Prime Time Viewing for the next 8 months

Craig Thomson just arrested for fraud. 150 charges. ALP majority gone as I think he has to resign now.
Polling over the last six months show a 5% swing to the Libs. Labor reduced to 51 seats vs 91 for the Libs. That excludes the independents who will go too. As for Malcolm Turnball he may as well be in the ALP. He is yesterday’s man.
The Greens will be wiped out.
Gillard called the date so she can avoid a by election . The odds are Slipper will resign. He is truly stuffed because of the sexual harassment case against him.
Lots of popcorn to eat on this one . Our Oz cousins are fed up with the endemic Union corruption.
Also Gillard is being investigated for preparing and using a Power of Attorney illegally to access Union funds which were gathered fraudulently .
It will be a wipeout for the ALP.
Good job. Couldn’t happen quickly enough to a bunch of corrupt liars

Nice comment below from Steve Cates at Cattalaxy. Key will have the same problem
So here is the problem facing Tony Abbott as he tries, as did Mitt Romney, to put together a package of proposals that will deal with the actual problems Australia has. In running against a party of the Left, based on Obama’s re-election campaign these are the problems he will need to keep in mind.

They will use some of the most sophisticated analytical and statistical techniques available to uncover every grievance in every sub-constituency. They will then target these groups with promises to fix whatever problems they pick up.

They will run a precisely targeted campaign of fear based on the threat of losing programs or payments that benefit each of these sub-constituencies.

They will label the Coalition as representatives of a tired, old ideology based on principles no longer relevant in the twenty-first century. Misogyny, reproductive rights, religion, along with any number of issues that their analytics team has identified, will be driven whether or not there is any reality behind these fears. Labor being the party of the path of least resistance is almost never under such threats.

They will promise what cannot be afforded and dare the Coalition not to match their supposed generosity. Criticisms about the affordability of such ideas—where’s the money coming from?—will work just as well for the ALP.

They will invent sources of revenue that will never in reality cover the cost of their programs but which are sourced well beyond their own target constituency.

They not only will have but will expect to have, and will be entirely dependent on, virtually the whole of the media being in their corner at every stage of the way who will cover for Labor to the fullest extent they can while ratcheting up the decibel count on any issue that might harm the Coalition.

The Left’s incompetence and bad government are never enough to ensure its defeat. And the more that outdated notions of personal freedom and independence are moved downwards in the scale of collective values the more difficult a party of the Left will be to dislodge. The ALP has not yet lost the next election. Barack Obama, with hardly a success to his name, is still the president. Polls or no polls, who the Australian prime minister will be a year from today is yet to be determined.”