Re your post which included; "... We have short memories... he was terrible... And by the time this all happens we will be closer to that glorious day when Labor is sent back across the house to the benches of opposition...somewhere they are used to sitting...and will be for over a decade again."
The record shows that Australians do tend to elect governments to serve more than just one term.
However, you appear to have forgotten that Hawke-Keating were in charge from 1983 to 1996 & that the Rudd-Gillard Govt. has already run 4 years & is not due to front voters until late 2012 - early 2013.
You might also do well to remember that the electorate had not tired of Kevin Rudd when Julia Gillard gave him the chop in June 2010. He is still our most popular pollie & has no need to make a move anytime soon.
Gillard is trying to tough it out & may well have bottomed in the polls. If Tony Abbott has already maxed out it's all down from here for him.
Given Abbott's failure to explain his vision for our future, his reactionary & negative approach to leading the Opposition, his failure to stop scores of government policies & the policy-free zone that is his Liberal Party he has an awful lot of work to do to persuade us he is ready to govern.
