the libs were far from great economic managers, waisted opportunities made available from the resource boom and added extra heat to an already over heated economy.
They needed to go.
will Lab be any better?
Who knows it will be hard from them to be any worse and the only way the libs were going to improve was by spending time in opposition,. Where they can clean out the dead wood and hasbeens (like Howard) and knock out some of their arrogance.