On Mon, April 28, 2014 5:17 pm, Peter Ross wrote:
People cast their vote for all sorts of reasons, never more than 50% for a specific item.
E.g. only a small minority voted for Abbott's Direct Action, there is more support for the carbon tax: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fairfaxnielsen-poll-vo...
I think it's reasonable to say that a majority of voters in the last Federal election voting against the previous government (with all its infighting etc) rather than for the opposition or their policies. Tanya Plibersek was right when she said, "I'd give us nine out of ten for governing the country, none out of ten for governing ourselves". -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt