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I am backing Kevin Rudd to regain the Prime Ministership of Australia. Rudd will become Australia's second longest serving PM after Robert Menzies. I went for my team, my country, my Labor heartland voters. It's a pity that Tony Windsor is not backing Rudd. Go Team Rudd! Go Labor! Good guys win...

Source: Seven News/ ABC News Federal Labor Independent MP Rob Oakeshott, whose crucial support helped Labor form the minority government after the 2010 election, has announced he is quitting politics. The federal member for Lyne has told his local newspaper he will not contest the September...

Labor seats to be halved in 2013 election under the leadership of Julia Gillard. Labor is forecasted to hold just 36 seats out of the total of 150 seats in the federal parliament after the 2013 election. According to Labor polling Labor is on track to lose up to 35 seats of the 71 seats at the...

Hey there, I think if you want to do Bachelor of Arts you should do it at University of Sydney or Macquarie University. Do a major in Politics and International Relations. If you do Pol/ Int Relations you can become a diplomat, a foreign affairs analyst, a government adviser or a politician...

Reflecting on my Preliminary and HSC years in 2007/2008. I think I chose the right subjects. In year 11 I did: Advanced English Extension 1 Maths Advanced Maths (2 unit) Business Studies Economics Chemistry Biology For year 12 I dropped Extension 1 Maths and Chemistry. In my senior years at...

Hey Scuba Steve, I am not a communist. I am a Labor neo- conservative. I believe in free market principles but I trust that the fair go should be shinning forward providing optimism, prospect and incentive to all Australians. The hallmark of Western civilization in the 21st century has been the...

Stop the boats we must. Stop the boats we will. We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come. Vote Labor and we will protect our borders. We will send asylum seekers who seek to jump the que back in the que via our "no advantage test." I hear your concerns...

The failed Abbott experiment with his massive cutbacks to the public service, health, education, welfare and defence. Who do you trust? Not Tony Abbott that's for sure. Tony Abbott likes to take a baseball bat to families but never gives himself a smack across his chops, for his incompetent policies

I never got on a boat. I waited in refugee camps in North Sri Lanka. But the interesting thing to remember is that 90 per cent of boat people are genuine refugees according to the latest figures in 2013 from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.

Are wages in Australia too high and if so please explain why? Do you support the use of 457 visas to cut the cost base of labour in Australia?

Tony Abbott wants to turn boats around and tow them back to Indonesia. However, there is no agreement that Indonesia will accept the asylum seekers. Turning boats around is cruel, inhumane and a cancer on international solidarity/ mateship. We must never turn our backs on the most vulnerable...

I believe that the Liberals will take the axe to welfare as is manifested by Mr Hockey's statement that "the Liberals will end the age of entitlement". Mr Hockey is cruel, inhumane and a cancer on welfare liberalism. The Liberals are the party of the far right extremists such as Cory Bernardi...

Gillard is not more incompetent that Mark Latham. Julia Gillard won a federal election in 2010 with a majority of the two party preferred vote and the majority of seats with the help of Labor Independents. Gillard convinced the ultra conservative former Liberal Peter Slipper to become a Labor...

The Gillard government and the Australian Labor Party is the party of stability. The Liberals have changed leaders three times over the past six years while the Labor party have only changed leaders once. If you can't run your party then there is no hope that you can run the country. Tony Abbott...

Rudd speaks voters' language. It was a cold and wet day in Hurstville when Kevin Rudd rained on PM Julia Gillard's parade. He's a rock star I enthused as the blue tie wearing former PM was mobbed by shoppers in the Southern Sydney seat of Barton. Everytime he comes he is welcomed. The...

John Howard once described himself as “the most conservative leader the Liberal Party has ever had.” Similarly Kevin Rudd branded himself as an “economic conservative” in the 2007 federal election and John Howard’s title as an economic conservative. Then Julia Gillard usurped Kevin Rudd’s title...

If Kevin Rudd were to become Labor leader who would you have as Deputy PM? A)Julia Gillard B) Bill Shorten C)Greg Combet D) Wayne Swan E) Chris Bowen F)Stephen Smith

Julia Gillard is the best Labor Prime Minister of Australia since Bob Hawke. I voted Liberal all my life until Kevin Rudd led the Labor party to victory in 2007. I also voted for Julia Gillard in 2010. I am now a Labor voter. Rain, hail or shine I will be voting Labor. I believe that the...

How many seats do you predict federal Labor will have in the 2013 election? A)20-30 B)40-50 C)60-70 D)80-90

Labor stems political slaughterhouse. Laurie Ferguson, Federal Labor MP for Werriwa, was overjoyed when according to the post budget AC Nielsen and Galaxy polls, Labor had narrowed the two party vote to 54 per cent Coalition to 46 per cent Labor. Labor had effectively neutralized the border...