Reality: what a concept

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-13/green-two-weekend/4749874

"On Wednesday last week Kevin Rudd's media advisor responded to a standing request from the ABC's 7.30 program. Kevin might be interested in appearing.

An RAAF aircraft on patrol spots a vessel carrying at least 55 people 28 nautical miles north-west of Christmas Island. It is stationary. No distress signal or other communication is received."

The media keep dragging up imaginary prospects of a new Rudd campaign and administration. The farcical prospect of electing a party which has one leader to rule and another to win elections is not credible, but the media keep dragging this up. Even with the Americanisation of our political system we still vote for parties, not personalities. The time for a leadership challenge is not just before an election, yet tht is how it has panned out in the last two iterations. These issues were settled by popular vote in the caucus more than a year ago and remain settled. The media should just leave it alone and concentrate on events like Craig Emerson's summation of Labour's case, which was reported and then lost in the white noise.

Tony Abbott should have zero credibility with anyone. He is on record saying that anything he says that is unscripted is a lie. Two weeks ago we saw that in fact anything he writes or signs off on is also a lie. He represents a party that has a record of gaining office and remaining in office by dirty tricks and lies, I refer to the children overboard lie and the imaginary budget emergency. They insist that they are the natural party of government but cannot attain government by rational comparison of policy, and so must resort to these tactics. This looks like megalomania and we had a quote from Abbott a few weeks ago indicating the same thing.

If Abbott gets elected it will be an unmitigated disaster for this country.