Confused about Australia’s political future ? Then read Mark Davis in the SMH as he discusses what might happen next It won’t necessarily help but it does lay out options that might be taken by the Governor General, Gillard and Abbott over the next month or two.

INDEPENDENT candidate Andrew Wilkie has emerged pleased from his prime ministerial meeting, saying Julia Gillard was genuinely interested in supporting his push for national pokie machine reform. Amazing, isn’t it? I can just see her….poker machines! What on earth are you on about? Ah yes…silly of me. Of course the most important thing on my mind right now is poker machines reform….yes Andrew, it is terribly important and I support your ideas, as does all of the ALP. I figure the first time Julia thought of ‘poker machines’ was just after she heard that Wilkie was into them. That’s what comes from desperation – frivolous, knee jerking single issue management. How many other single issue demands are we going to have to comply with before we get stable government? Not good.

The “Unelectable” Abbott and the voters have prevailed – almost ….it’s all down to the Independents and the last few seats to be counted.

Lower house independents Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott and Bob Katter said they would meet to discuss how they would approach forming a stable government but in separate interviews on the ABC all three refused to back either Labor or the Coalition.

And and that’s the way they should play it. They can do a lot for their constituents but I have met Katter and Windsor and in the long term I can’t imagine them backing the ALP/Greens. Julia Gillard;

“the people have spoken and it’s going to take a little while to determined exactly what they said”

They’ve said you’re gone Julia. Tony Abbott;

“And I say that a government which found it very hard to govern effecitvely with a majority of 17 seats will never be able to govern effectively in a minority.”

I watched ‘Red’ Kerry and have no complaints with the way he handled the night. I was impressed with Stephen Smith, as I always have been, and must say he handled what must have been a shock to him, in a calm and professional manner. I also visited live blogs at Jack the Insiders and the ABC’s The Drum. The Drum was the most entertaining with people vowing to shift overseas if Abbott got in. A move, that on the whole, would enhance the intellectual standing of Australia. I hope they’re packing now…the writing is on the wall. I felt their pain as well as the anguish and spite of Maxine McKew. It was exquisite. The Greens have increased their power and that augers bad for the country (what on earth is in the water in Victoria – LSD?) The only possible plus I can see is that with one of them in the house of Reps the voters may see more of their insane policies and maybe, just maybe, think a bit. Optimistic I know but one can always live in hope.

Let’s have a look at the woman who would be PM and her party Following a long line of wives of our leaders, all fairly classy women in their own right; from Patty Menzies, Zara Holt, Betina Gordon, Sonya McMahon, Maragaret Whitlam, Tamie Fraser, Hazel Hawke, Anita Keating, Jeannette Howard and through to Therese Rein we have plumeted to the latest boyfriend. The latest of three since she’s been in Parliament. Call it what you will, ad hominem comments, misogyny, (definitely not true – I love ’em) or silly old fart, I simply I don’t like it. I do look for social stability in a leader. She thinks Jim Cairns was a winner and denies she’s had anything to do with the socialists for years – “It was just when I was young”. Bullshit, as late as 2004 she was still a member of the Socialist Forum. Her first foray into International Affairs centered around her trying to get the boaties off the front page. She spoke to the President of East Timor when she should had spoken to the PM. She then said she wasn’t thinking about East Timor and then said she was. The ALP can’t understand NO. The East Timor parliament has voted NO, Their PM has said NO, their Defence Force Chief has said NO but Smith still says ‘we are still negotiating’. If they are still negotiating then it’s with themselves. I mean what part of NO don’t they understand? The N or the bloody O? No answer before the election and likely a bad answer after. In an attempt to get ETS off the front page Gillard has said she is going to get a 150 Australians together to debate the issue and take it from there. So the greatest moral challenge of our time has been neutralized for the election by a silly idea that wont work and is basically tasking other people to do the work that the ALP were elected for. Veterans on COMSUPER (DFRBFD) Pensions. The graph shows the problem The Coalition will index the pensions to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Male Total Average Weekly Earnings (MTAWE) or the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index (PBLCI). whichever is the highest for all recipients over 55. The ALP refuse to address the anomaly and will do what they have always done – ignore us..no votes in it. Well, be very careful Julia, there has been a very well coordinated marginal seat targeting by the ex service community and all parties have conceded our point and will address the issue – except the ALP. Foreign Affairs. Gillad looks like she will be obliged to give Rudd Foreign Affairs. That’s the same Rudd who is on record as saying “The Chinese ratf****d us” That’ll be good, won’t it? And then after the election watch Rudd as he continues to build his CV for UN Leadership. Crossing the Hornibrook Highway heading north I spied the local ALP stalwarts on the side of the road with a hand printed sign proclaiming loudly RAIL!. Ah yes, the rail connection to the Redcliffe Peninsular has been promised for as many elections as I can remember – never happened of course and wont happen this time either. Comes from the same knee jerk response bin that the Epping rail link came from. Gillard simply did not care that literally billions of dollars were wasted on rorts, scams, overpricing, gouging and simple thievery associated with Labor’s complete lack of oversight during the Pink Batt Fiasco and the BER Debacle. She is not a new face. She was present for all of those bad decisions as part of the Gang of Four. She would have voted on them and yet we are expected to vote her in on a lot of words spoken since. Deeds speak for themselves. Remember the Pink Batts (have you seen Garrett lately/) Remember the Greatest moral challenge of our time (have you seen Penny Wong lately?) Remember the NBN – the most expensive broadband answer IN THE WORLD BAR NONE. It wasn’t in the budget and is not costed thus there is no guarantee that the costs will be limited to just $43b. Remember their lies – Abbott will bring back work choices. How the hell is he going to do that when the Greens are going to have the balance of power in the Senate? In her final day of campaign all she can do is repeat the lie – Abbott will bring back Work Choices. Repeat mantra several times…mention the word risk 20 odd times. Like the Epping and Redcliffe railway lines – some people will believe anything. She lies while Abbott reminds the country of the Pink Batts debacle – a fact I’m keeping my fingers crossed tomorrow night. Not for myself, not for my beliefs, but for the good of the country. Another three years of ALP incompetence will just put us further behind the eight ball. Like Whitlam’s fiasco it could take the next Coalition decades to get us back on track if the country doesn’t cut their losses and get rid of them now.

GREENS Leader Bob Brown says voters are rolling their eyes as Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott bicker over the terms of their next debate. As different from voters rolling their eyes at virtually everything you say Bob? At least they are debating the future of the country whereas you never debate anything and have policies that will economically ruin the country. Go away Bob and be quiet and just be thankful there are sufficient gullible voters in the community shallow enough to give you a job.