I appreciate your posts on this thread more than a simple thumb might suggest.
Soon after the election when the mix of the senate cross bench became known I posted that I thought they were a more workable group than the dissolved senate cross bench and that I felt a measured PM like Turnbull should be able to work with them. It's really uplifting to see this happening.
Palmer was on a poisonous revenge vendetta against the Liberal government and he succeeded in dragging newbie micro parties with him as a nation ransoming block.
Abbott's truculence and Palmer's intransigence were a crippling mix.
