At last I found a friendly place to post. 
Wow. What a wipeout. This is classic get rid of the incumbent mood.
Careful what you wish for Campbell. Imagine the task of corralling over 30 newbies with little or no parliamentary experience. Including many existing members who were miffed that they had to endure several bruising election cycles now being told what to do by the unpreselected , unelected mayor of Brisbane. Newman is the first urban liberal to be voted in as Premier. The swing in the bush was much smaller and of course Katters Krazies polled very well. What happened was we voted for the mayor of Brisbane. (People forgot that the local elections are next month).
This could actually be quite good for Federal Alp. This may have been a venting of steam that needed to happen. Anthony Green says that Gillard could benefit from a disastrous first year. Their will be a swing back in three years but where are the ALP's future leaders.
The mad monk was trying to say that this would be a referendum on the carbon tax. Talk about coattails.
How many of the newbies will blot their copybook in someway within the first six months?
When will they vote themselves a pay increase?
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