With the continuing leadership problems of the Abbott LNP government, one would expect the ALP to be increasingly seen by the electorate as a more viable option to lead the nation.
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While the polls indicate this to be a possibility, the ALP may well have been better placed had it not ignored Anthony Albanese as the popular choice for leader but instead handed the position to Bill Shorten.
History proves in most instances Australians get the government they deserve; the Abbott government in 2013 being the most recent example. Obviously the ALP is concerned that a revisiting of its leadership misstep with Bill Shorten would serve to relieve the current pressure on the LNP’s leadership problems.
Yet unless the ALP “bites that bullet”, with Bill Shorten at the ALP helm the odds are in favour of the LNP being returned at the next election.
Barry Swan, Balgownie
I sent emails to Wollongong council on February 23, 25, 26, 27 regarding cigarette butts and other rubbish outside a nightclub in the CBD after Sunday night’s trading. I was given an event number, #451804, and advised that it would be forwarded to the relevant department.
The response to the last email was that my comments would be added to the event number.
Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery was on television midweek on South Beach doing a litter pick-up number for all to see.
Well Mr Mayor, how come you can do a promo for the television yet can’t come into the CBD and pick up what I have been complaining about for five days? The spat-out chewing gum is on almost every paver.
That’s for another day.
Michael St John, Barrack Heights
The 2015 Academy Awards ceremony should go down in the history of cinema as the worst ever.
You would think that with the cream of the entertainment world on hand, a really outstanding show would be easy to offer to the fans of the silver screen on Oscars night.
But what we got this year was a smutty, crude, and very boring ceremony deserving of nothing more than a slow hand-clap.
The ‘‘In Memoriam’’ segment was more of an insult to famous achievers of the film industry, and even managed to leave some out altogether.
Little wonder cinemas and video outlets are disappearing at a rate of knots.
Hollywood is definitely finding it harder to deliver the entertainment goods, and ticket buyers are well aware of it.
Dave Cox, Corrimal
What a troublemaker Malcolm Turnbull is, waiting for the Coalition to win office and then undermining the leader to take the office of prime minister for himself.
The Human Rights Commission is meant to be impartial.
However, the decision by commission president Gillian Triggs to keep back an inquiry while the Gillard government was in office and 2000 children were in detention shows very poor judgment and political bias in support of Labor.
Gillian Triggs has discredited herself.
Malcolm Turnbull is fully aware of the Gillian Triggs matter, and yet he goes out of his way to contradict the PM.
He is doing all he can to undermine and destroy Tony Abbott.
If Mr Turnbull was to become prime minister soon, then many genuine grassroots Liberals would walk away.
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
