Its tough for rural people to be represented in the land of the fair go

For all the effort we put in locally here in Corangamite to get the conservatives back , you wonder about the Libs. Their go it alone mentality is too much like the children in charge stuff from the other side- a symbol again of the disease that's creating even more careless reactionaries in new parties around us .
The most scary thing here is to see The Libs back to their old comfort zone. Somehow they didn't realise ( Like Labor does with the Greens) that they NEED to do a sensible ( makes more sense than many silly deals this election ) deal with their allies (esp FF who they failed to get favouring them well- maybe it was FF fault ?). While the Libs got Nationals to put them 2nd here in Corangamite they still spent a lot of money trying to win the unwinnable Mallee off the Nats . Stockdale needs to get his head read by his own followers .
With only a handful of rural seats and a mad mixture of monopoly games around our cities its clear than nooone is really listening to rural people . FF polled better than the Nationals in Corangamite and that not right . Today in the paper our Mayor ignores the farmers clear wisdom ( on salinity ) for the incompetent meddling and non science  of the Bureau.  

Election Issues are not real, but even the ABC aren't seeing it

Its very hard to take even The Drum seriously when Steve Cannane is not aware that he's taking " the issues " too seriously;  4 days before the big day.
Both J& John Dela Bosca had to tell the him the obvious - You are asking us - you shouldn't be asking us! " no we are not qualified to say whether the new carbon market model will work"  - good on them  I say . Too much noise by those who know nothing . So why do we have to listen to Labor move from one word to another  from "tax",to" pricing" and expect to actually engage; ABC is so predictable .
It was only common sense a few decades ago to say - "no I am not qualified " hasn't stopped the ABC trying to qualify itself ( including the light and shallow economic quarter after which thankfully showed Labor to have failed completely - confidence in " the innovative society" has dropped dramatically over the last few years )

 If only the chatterer's would take the complexity of carbon cycling and achieving change seriously they wouldn't be remembered for leading our society into excessive worry about things they know nothing about and don't want to know that they nothing about - want to believe one side rather than properly present both.  Still backing some semblance of "a market mechanism" - IS a trite piece of doctrinal simplicity and careless talk that not even an undergrad in economics would be guilty of .

In an other bit of combined common sense from the panel,  J&J had to remind Steve that the asylum debate hasn't happened - the people still confuse immigration and asylum so what hope have we got when even the ABC haven't pushed the point - now 4 days before the election

One could go through the list of excitements about nothing :  gay marriage and many others which are just talk for the media .
This election is not about the marginal noise but the central failure of Labor to get it ideas working . Rudd's and ABC sycophants  fanaticism is obvious to some of us who observe all the old prejudices , over emotion and thought bubble progress method that is drug driven and simply " hot air "