I think it's time for a new prime minister. I don't like john howard at all i think austrlians need a victorian prime minister like steve bracks. John howard should give up while still in front. Steve bracks is more visual and more paitent than john howard don't you think? Well you can agree or disagree i think john is getting to old for this. Theres a time where john should retire it should have been last year. 10 years is a long time and boy isn't john looking more frail as he's prime minister.
132462
I think John Howards an utter tool, but seriously Bracks isn't much better and is committed to the same economic austerity measures as the Liberals are.
232020
The reshuffle was instigated way before Prescott's and Clarke's miseries. It wouldn't have helped just to sack Prescott (which Blair didn't anyway) - Blair NEED to do something on education and the NHS, and he MUST do something on foreign affairs and Europe - hence the major reshuffle!
247160
he has had alot of emails from people who disagree with him hopping in the ambo!\nthey are saying he had no right to get in even though Todd Russell asked him too. i'm not sure if channel 9 said anything about it, but he is upset with all the critiscism, from sunrise watchers.\npersonally i think he done nothing wrong.
427095
yep. no valid reason to go inthe first place, no reason to stay now. The sooner we leave the sooner a natural balance cna be restored to the country.\n\nForcing our idea of democracy and values on a country will never work.\n\nyou would have thought we'd learnt that by now. I guess there are no history books in Downing Street.
498518
Well he never really has success with businesses, so I don't think he will do that.  I think he will mostly retire.  He might continue to be involved with foreign relations and investments, like his father has done.  I do see him taking up some causes.
472211
I am praying he never makes prime minister for that exact reason. Look at the damage he is done to the average punter as chancellor, think of what he could therefore do as PM.\n\nThe bottom line is that we pay enough taxes and his focus has got to be on increasing efficiency and cutting costs, not increasing revenues yet again and crippling the hard-working, honest individual any further.
431313
i have to agree with you.  he may not be visually appealing to everyone, but he is very educated and has some really good ideas.  His insight is often over looked.  Its a shame really.  Also too bad he has such a bad reputation, i honestly think if there were more people like him this would be a better nation.
312810
Someone better wake up old George and tell him his career is over. Well at least Wham is over and anything else he did before his wild toilet sexscapades (new word)\nHis new stuff sadly falls short.
533061
He has spent 10 million so far and has more to spend. He is a good man but it seems to me Granholm is doing a good job. The Federal policies has hurt her much more than her policies. I believe she deserves another term.
320784
I have to agree that the investment is poor.  As an ex-pat Aussie living in the UK it is clear that the English don't show the same level of government support as we do.  I guess maybe it's because there is only so much money to go around, and the populace insist on maintaining an expensive health service, NHS dentists, and other traditional tax absorbers; and that in light of this someone running for office won't win votes by saying "I'm going to eliminate non-private dentistry and build a National Institute of Sport"
618323
I think 2 shorter terms of 3 years would be wiser.  The present president is clearly a madman - I know the entire country can't be held responsible for his actions (as well as lack of actions in times of crises), but I just cannot comprehend how this could have happened!
216499
As a fellow Australian who do you mean by 'them'? Are we talking Labour/ Liberal? or something more extreme? because there is not a great deal of difference between our two biggest parties, and even when you vote for someone else 'preferences' help one of the two get in anyway.
121909
I think about the power to lead wisely and help us have a well run government. Too many politicians are in it to serve themselves rather than the people. Where are the dedicated leaders such as Senator Proxmire and Senator Nelson.
351262
I think the press has ruined his whole career. We'll be hearing about it til the new year maybe longer, the press just likes to milk things for all they're worth.
174137
Does anyone still believe anything that comes out of Number 10? The Prime Minixter doesn't own the questions, so the phrase they use makes a mockery of the democractic process and perhaps an indicataor of the trend to elevate the PM to Presidential status.\n\nI'm not sure which is correct - you might try Hansard - but I prefer Questions to the Prime Minister.
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Far better than the present incumbent!!\n\nI really do hope that the police investigation of the cash for peerages row nabs Blair and his cronies.\n\nBut it is vital that as soon as Labour are ousted that whoever gets in institutes an independent enquiry into the whole of the Labour reign.  \n\nAll the lies and fudging of figures (false Accounting?), spin, politicisation of civil servants, 1984 control of the press, and all the other shenanigans that have been going on.\n\nWhy for instance have MPs that fiddled their expenses never been prosecuted?  How can they justify prosecuting a member of the public for a crime they seem immune to?  Law should be applied equally and if it is not then it should be struck from the statute book.\n\nIt is time that politics was dragged kicking and screaming back into behaving honestly.
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If you want to keep your job you don't usually attack the incumbent party and PM! I would have thought it's as a result of tory lobbying and the police's recognition that they'll be in power in the next couple of year.