No one found it funny the first time you said it.

so you have asked everyone????

otherwise STFU

People that say things like this don't understand how the Westminster system works.

Yep this is what i'm saying.

Obviously people who vote in an election are actually voting for their representative in their local electorate, and the leader of the party with the most electorates represented becomes Prime Minister, however it still feels like a cheap win when her party wasn't even a majority.

lolnotor and everything else

Feminists also don't have a great grasp on how things work either, so it's probably an apt question in the long run.

So where do you stand on Independents voting independently ?

Can't you call me an idiot instead?

I feel dirty agreeing with you

Why do you ask?

Gillard retained her seat on election day. Her party, however, was not re-elected to government that day. They did, however, remain a caretaker government until such time that they formed a minority government with the independents. It seems pretty clear from this that Gillard was not elected PM by the electorate. Explain exactly what it is I don't understand?

"that day" is a meaningless semantic. The constituency elected the parliament which formed the government.

Gillard was selected by a majority of elected representatives to be the Prime Minister after a federal election by gathering the confidence of the majority of her peers. All Prime Ministers are elected the same way in our system.

She was the first elected Prime Minister, to say she wasn't is as stupid as the morons who were saying something like "Abbott will never be MY Prime Minister".

Odds on Tonz getting his daughters out in the public spotlight? :roll:

It's not the public he needs to be worried about, he's already toast to the electorate.

2010 Federal Election

Two Party Preferred vote

ALP - 6,216,445 = 50.12%

Lib - 6,185,918 = 49.88%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_federal_election,_2010#Two-party-preferred_vote

This.

Unless he's getting them to give gobbies to all the backbenchers he's still done for.

-PB

:-k

Did I accidentally the word female?

I think did.

Pretty sure Joey Barton was our first Prime Minister.

He card read good.

Well, he did have Margie out canvassing for him.

Do the Greens still want to negotiate with ISIS for a peaceful outcome in the middle east? :lol:

Cool deflection bro.

Oh sorry I didn't realise every comment had to be solely directed to bashing Tony Abbott.

What would you do with ISIS notor? Would you go to Iraq and negotiate a peaceful outcome with them? :lol: Promise not to drop bombs anymore and withdraw forces from the ME in exchange of everlasting peace? :lol:

Edited by rusty: 5/2/2015 11:09:07 AM

I think that I've talked about my thoughts on the Islamic State enough.

Don't let that stop you from a good strawman, though.

More calm and methodical governance from the government of no surprises.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/joe-hockey-breaches-charter-of-budget-honesty-20150204-1367g7.html

A sin worthy of death sentence that.

Just another drop in the growing evidence puddle of Liberal fiscal incompetence.

I don't think a puddle quite compares with the ocean of debt Labor left us

Weird, it's a lot worse now than it ever was with the ALP. I thought that the LNP were going to fix everything? Now they can't even release reports that they are legally obliged to release.