the labor party will not last 3 years....for starters, rudd is not a team player, and its well documented that he damaged relationships with our asian neighbours....but hey gillard in her wisdom has let him loose in that department again.... she will need to drop him again....he cannot be trusted with such an important portfolio, and just wait for a repeat of his bad language towards the chinese govnut at copenhagan.... (cannot repeat what he said there....its a banned word on this forum) the chinese must be horrified, together with the indonesians
and mr nice guy, Stephen Smith is very very unhappy on that score, losing his portfolio Swan will come up against a massive attack on the mining tax, and his gross financial incompetence...from not only the coalition, but the greens and the independs......
never mind all the other players likely to retire, get sick, leave office its a tenuous situation, held together by a very weak piece of string... I recall seeing figures of an average of 5 federal politicans a year leave office mid term for a variety of reasons......
ps....I think the count for nsw state pollies who suddenly left just recently is now 6
