Aus 2010 Election quotes

"The whole situation has gone from being 'on the edge' to being irritating. Just want things to move on so we can get into our 3 years of mud slinging. The independents suggest a new stability and 'paradigm shift'. This will just be a severely malfunctioning Parliament which gets nowhere. Those bloody bells will be rung off of the walls!

Posted by: rupy | Sep 07, 2010 at 01:50 PM " - ABC

Don'ts
..... slavish adherence to the focus groups where they become iron law

SMH arctile ..." .....political skill over the last nine months has been in defining the battleground.

He did not turn around the...... fortunes - and bring it to the brink of victory - by taking his stand from the mushy centre and compromising with his opponents."

Paul Krugman,The New York Times’ economics commentator, called the plan “the audacity of dopes”.