"Nice try at confusing the issue to protect your favoured side...

"Nice try at confusing the issue to protect your favoured side obiter but as you well know I was talking about poker machine reforms.
Care to comment on the coalition policy on those?
Dave R."

Like same sex marriage, I don't know that pokies "reform" is one of the issues MPs of either side would place at the head of matters raised by constituents as matters of crucial importance. Lots of far more pressing matters.

........on the other hand, the "reforms" I raised are red hot in the electorate as even Bruce Hawker would acknowledge.

There, I answered about pokies "reform" Dave R, so have a go at responding to my post which isn't confusing the issue as you suggest; the competence and moral integrity of this PM and her government are the core issues facing us today. I expect neither Labor nor the Coalition have any real intention of doing much about poker machines in the near future, perhaps for the same reasons! It is a non-issue.