Is fascinating these days how we are prevented from comment in Newspaper blogs on the comments of those that exploit the media with outright lies. We have a politician protesting his innocence of corruption and stealing money despite the weight of proven evidence against him with his lawyer wailing he will sue anyone commenting about it. Bring it on you paid fool! Listen to his abysmal interview on 2GB (www.2gb.com)radio a day ago that further demonstrates what a idiot he is as well as his client. A match in heaven!

Thanks to our weak Gillard Government, thousands of Muslims arrive monthly without identification in boats on our shores demanding benefits and housing because we are a soft touch. A Muslim race that just a day or so ago invaded one of our major hospitals and threatened staff when two of their criminal elements were shot dead by another of their Muslims. The hospital had to call in the riot squad to protect them. This disgusting race threatened the lives of others in the hospital. I have lost all respect for these filth Can't wait to get rid of these vermin from our country.

Letting Minority groups Rule

Here we go again.!

Muslims have this knack of dividing, whining about racism when they are the worst racists of all time.

I am not certain about the figures mentioned in this, BUT I DO know that the problems with Muslims in Europe are becoming quite a major problem these days! I can also see it happening here when I hear from friends living in Sydney Muslim areas! They really are having major problems just keeping some towns Australian! I can see that the numbers here will increase dramatically as the years go by with the large number of children they have …. & it’s THE reason they have so many kids …. to proliferate Islam & take us over as we don’t in crease at the same rate. It’s certainly what’s happening in Europe ! I don’t know the numbers for here in 2050, but I have seen some on the ‘net … & the numbers sound reasonably correct just when you consider the numbers that are here now, then consider how they increase their families. It is beginning to concern me that we won‘t have time to change things around before it’s too late. It’s also a problem allowing so many of their relatives to come over & live. We certainly need to stem that tide!!! W.

Isn’t this happening here?

SALUTE to Denmark .. This could very well happen here on our Continent.... Susan MacAllen is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org) Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom By Susan MacAllen In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark . But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants. The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism. Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets -all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite? By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious. Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark 's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history. An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they forecasted, accurately, that the growing immigrant problem inDenmark would explode. In the article they reported: 'Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.' 'Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.' 'Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.' 'Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem' 'Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.' It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and Canada: some Muslims in Denmarkwho opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who. as a teenager. had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today. In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmarkhas the strictest immigration policies in Europe .. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of 'racism' by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark 's history, culture, and a Danish language test . You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark , you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen . Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark , they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren't. In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system, as it existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. 'We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration'. 'The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,' he said. A large thorn in the side of Denmark 's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the new policy toward immigration, 'The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a difference,' Hvilsh?j says, 'There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come.' And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, 'In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech.' Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce. Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whetherDenmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law. And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on ourtaxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history .. we would do well to look to Denmark , and say a prayer for her future and for our own..

As tens of thousands of free loading mostly Muslim Middle Easterners flood our shores on boats to suck up benefits and housing from the piss weak Government we have, many more thousands of Australians in desperate need are ignored by the Gillard Government. We have many examples how these so called Muslims do not wish to integrate in our society as seen in the latest incident at Sydney Westmead hospital a day or so ago, attempting to damage and destroy one of our main hospitals in the name of their religion. We all know Gillard is a known liar supported by equal liar and so called Treasurer Swan cranking out spin on a daily basis. We have just 12 months to vote these bastards an un-Australians out of Government and reduce the Muslim intake before these filth destroy our Australian way of life

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Muslims in Australia

I am not certain about the figures mentioned in this, BUT I DO know that the problems with Muslims in Europe are becoming quite a major problem these days!

I can also see it happening here when I hear from friends living in Sydney Muslim areas! They really are having major problems just keeping some towns Australian!

I can see that the numbers here will increase dramatically as the years go by with the large number of children they have …. & it’s THE reason they have so many kids …. to proliferate Islam & take us over as we don’t in crease at the same rate. It’s certainly what’s happening in Europe !

I don’t know the numbers for here in 2050, but I have seen some on the ‘net … & the numbers sound reasonably correct just when you consider the numbers that are here now, then consider how they increase their families. It is beginning to concern me that we won‘t have time to change things around before it’s too late.

It’s also a problem allowing so many of their relatives to come over & live. We certainly need to stem that tide!!!

Isn’t this happening here?

SALUTE to Denmark .. This could very well happen here on our Continent.... Susan MacAllen is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org) Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom By Susan MacAllen In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark . But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants. The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism. Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets -all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite? By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious. Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark 's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history. An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they forecasted, accurately, that the growing immigrant problem inDenmark would explode. In the article they reported: 'Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.' 'Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.' 'Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.' 'Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem' 'Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.' It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and Canada: some Muslims in Denmarkwho opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who. as a teenager. had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today. In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmarkhas the strictest immigration policies in Europe .. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of 'racism' by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark 's history, culture, and a Danish language test . You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark , you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen . Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark , they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren't. In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system, as it existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. 'We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration'. 'The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,' he said. A large thorn in the side of Denmark 's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the new policy toward immigration, 'The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a difference,' Hvilsh?j says, 'There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come.' And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, 'In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech.' Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce. Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whetherDenmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law. And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on ourtaxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history .. we would do well to look to Denmark , and say a prayer for her future and for our own..

A Government Gone Mad

In Australia, we are currently governed by a minority left wing government further complicated with a bunch of incompetents leading it and two or three eccentric independents holding the balance of power elected by a minor fraction of less than .2% percent of our population. This is a worry in our prosperous country.

Our country may not remain prosperous much longer with wasteful spending by this Government combined with dirty dealing and a weak immigration policy allowing thousands of mostly middle eastern illegal immigrants whom we have no idea about their background (they destroy all identification), to enter our shores and claim benefits.

We may be brought to our knees as we pay benefits to these illegals and they attempt to dominate us with their culture.

A recent typical incident: a young child was eating lunch at school provided by his mother that included salami in his sandwich. Because it was Ramadan he was badly beaten by Muslim children as it offended their faith.

This happened in our country whereas in their country they permit no other faiths to practice and murder those that are non believers.

Below is a story from one of our respected national newspapers, The Australian, about the latest dirty deal done delivering a further blow to our democracy, to keep a hold on power just days ago:

Labor's costly gambit

• BY:PAUL KELLY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE
• From:The Australian
• November 26, 2011 12:00AM

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Julia Gillard and her frontbench enjoy their tactical victory over the Coalition in parliament on Thursday. Picture: Kym Smith Source:The Australian

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THE political toll extracted to create and sustain the Gillard minority government continues to mount -- a carbon tax in breach of promise, an alliance with the Greens, pledged poker machine laws, multiple funding deals with the independents and now the election of a Coalition rat as Speaker.

Julia Gillard will need to deliver political recovery down the track because the debt being lodged against brand Labor is fearsome. The stakes continue to mount. The risk is that Labor is lighting spectacular fires on the path to its debacle inferno.

In the annals of political rodentry Labor's deal with Peter Slipper is conspicuous yet equivocal. It virtually guarantees Gillard her full-term parliament yet it feeds Gillard's image with the public as an untrustworthy leader with an integrity problem. This is the main reason support had grown again for Kevin Rudd.

Until 48 hours ago Slipper, the new Speaker, had a near-zero recognition with the public, but that will change. Gillard has tied Labor to Slipper. He will become the latest exhibit of Labor's contentious decisions and dubious connections in the cause of its self-preservation.

Slipper's lax attitude towards parliamentary entitlements, a gift story for tabloids and talkback radio, will move to centre stage. Slipper's sins, present and past, are now Labor's inheritance. The Coalition was planning to execute Slipper but Labor voted him as Speaker before any of its own. The full story of the replacement of Labor's Harry Jenkins with Slipper may be benign.

There is no evidence Gillard did anything improper.

It is, however, an old-fashioned fix that reeks of NSW right-wing sleaze with Labor as vanguard of a political class whose goal is power and whose skills are deals to hold power. It is the sort of clever insider politics at which Labor excels. That's the trouble. This manoeuvre exposes Labor at its most vulnerable spot. A frustrated Tony Abbott's ability to incorporate this event into his central narrative about Labor -- the party that has betrayed its own people -- should not be misjudged.

Gillard as Prime Minister authorised this fix. She is beneficiary from having Labor's operating majority increase from one to three votes but will wear the blame if Slipper becomes a public liability.

For Labor, this operation was probably all too easy. Facing certain loss of preselection by his own side and having only the current parliament as his career end, Slipper was primed for seduction. Labor's maestro, Anthony Albanese, cut the deal in early morn without troubling the bartender.

Abbott, who has spent 15 months bragging about his ability to force an election on the floor, has been played for a mug by losing one of his own side. Caught with his pants down, it is an acute embarrassment for Abbott. How could he have been so careless? A certain full-term parliament will demand a major tactical re-assessment by Abbott.

The assumption that another two years in office must automatically assist Gillard is unjustified. That depends solely on Gillard's ability to change Labor policies and resurrect Labor's brand. Neither is easy. There is still little clue inside the party that Labor faces a systemic crisis. More of the same guarantees failure. The idea that another two years of Labor means the public will see the light and forgive and forget is laughable. Yet many ministers and Labor MPs actually believe this.

Labor's triumph confirms the bizarre structure of politics -- Gillard has mastery of minority government and Abbott commands popular sentiment beyond the parliament.

The gains for Gillard are tangible. The threat from Andrew Wilkie to withdraw his support if his poker machine bill is not passed no longer threatens Labor's survival. Gillard now has more scope for negotiation on the scheme.

Similarly, the risk posed by legal action against former union leader Craig Thomson no longer threatens the government's existence. The working majority of three votes purchases Gillard more discretion in dealing with the Greens, a factor that may become pivotal. The extra vote opens the possibility of more legislation being successful -- witness means-testing the private health insurance rebate and a new effort on asylum-seeker laws.

This event shifts the margin of power to Labor. It gives Gillard more authority. It invests minority government with more stability and certainty. It offers Gillard more scope to rebuild her government. Note, however, that Slipper's elevation confirms the polarisation in the system. All the usual elements are in play. Labor, once again, has played the insider politics with brilliance.

Just as Gillard was skilful at forming minority government and getting 254 bills through the parliament, she has now bolstered her floor majority as a minority PM. The rural independents, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, are getting accustomed to negotiating with Labor. The crossbenchers are more alienated from Abbott today than 15 months ago. His unremitting campaign to force an early election lies broken and beaten. At every point inside the beltway, playing insider politics, Gillard has left Abbott for dead.

She recently got the carbon pricing bills through the parliament. This week her mining tax bill went through the lower house. It took the High Court to throttle her Malaysia Solution and this remains the unresolved policy problem of the big three, carbon, mining and boats.

But at what cost has Gillard succeeded? For every insider success Gillard has paid a price in the wider country. The most recent Newspoll has Labor's primary vote at 30 per cent and a Coalition primary vote lead of 48-30 per cent. The fall in Labor's primary vote from 38 per cent at the August 2010 poll constitutes probably the biggest and fastest voting collapse in Australia's history.

There is something debasing about minority government. Its capacity to make the usual business of governance nakedly grubby is striking. The price of insider success comes with deals and compromises that only damage Labor as the governing party.

The challenges Gillard confronts during the next two years are daunting in the extreme. The world faces a unique and unpredictable economic crisis. The eurozone is engaged in a survival struggle that threatens a European recession. Political deadlock in the US weakens American economic prospects. The patchwork or three-speed Australian economy poses stark risks for Labor. Treasury deputy secretary David Gruen says the 2011-12 budget forecasts imply 70 per cent of Australia's economy will not benefit from the mining boom and will grow at only 1 per cent. Actual results will surely be worse.

The consensus that elected Rudd Labor in 2007 has collapsed. That is proved by the demise of the ALP primary vote. Australia today is a divided polity rent with four profound divisions.

First, an alienated corporate sector openly challenges Gillard Labor which it mistrusts; witness the new Business Council of Australia chief, Tony Shepherd, calling for urgent revision of the industrial laws and hostility from small business to myriad policies, notably having to finance most of Labor's lift in the super levy from 9 per cent to 12 per cent. The rift between Labor and corporate Australia seems unbridgeable.

Second, Labor's institutional ties to the trade union movement constitute a policy and political negative only guaranteed to grow more serious and more obvious to the public. As trade union private sector coverage falls to about 15 per cent, union pressure on Labor policy becomes more overt and damaging. The ACTU has no strategy of governing in partnership with Labor but operates as a privileged interest group, alienating majority opinion and weakening Labor's reform credentials.

Third, progressive politics in Australia is fatally divided long-term between Labor and the Greens. Gillard's formal association with the Greens has poisoned attitudes towards Labor across much of the nation. Labor has no strategy for fighting on two fronts against the Coalition and the Greens. The instincts of senior ministers to distance Labor from the Greens are correct but hard to implement. Greens leader Bob Brown has wedged Labor -- he is perceived as winning concessions from Labor yet able to denigrate Gillard when their policies collide. There is no sign of the Green primary vote falling away.

The consequence is Labor remains trapped in the contracted political centre ground.

Fourth, Labor is bedevilled by policy and delivery failures. There will be no easy relief from its reputation for incompetence. Witness the flaws in its mining tax, the problems in its three-year fixed-price carbon scheme with the rest of the Western world in retreat on this front and the monthly arrival of 600 boatpeople demonstrating that Labor cannot control Australia's borders.

Such points qualify the false optimism that a full-term parliament means the pendulum naturally returns to Labor. Gillard, however, has won a better chance for recovery. This is because Abbott's failure to procure an election must drive a tactical rethink within the Coalition. The truth is Abbott's early election obsession had become a disease. The polls, however, reveal his success and his new challenge is not reinvention. It is about offering more hope, engaging in constructive policy debate and limiting the Dr No image.

Labor knows how much damage Abbott has done to its standing. Given Labor's vulnerabilities its survival strategy during the next two years depends on ruining Abbott. That is the only road back. It is the chance Labor has won for itself.

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