christopher pyne on 7:30, page-27

daver - they'd be "doing their job" if they were consistent.

Generally they engage in debate with conservatives and give cups of hot cocoa to Labor types.

As for "extreme right wing" - depends where you are on the branch, I guess. If you're way out on the left, then even those in the centre look extreme right wing.

Certainly voters looked at it that way 9 months back when they handed Labor its biggest ever flogging and returned politics to the centre!