I was never happy with old loser Kim regaining the leadership after Latham was stabbed in the back - "pro bono" - 'who benefits'.

Latham actually had the gleam of someone who was prepared to try a few things creatively, which is the reason the 'machines' - political party and corporate, didn't want him. I refused to support Labour thereafter. I now much prefer the Greens, since the Democrats cut their political throats after their 'trust us on the GST' fiasco. At least they don't march along totally in step with Johnny! This is one serious advantage of our preferential system over the US one.

I think that maybe after years of denying fallouts from 'global warming' that the corporate machine is prepared to abandon Little Johnny, as he has tied his colours of 'Anti-Global Warming' too firmly to the mast for Aussies to accept a turncoat attitude from him on this. AFter all now that the crees have changed from 'but all the little green frogs will die' to 'but GW will hurt business', the corporate machine wants to look as if they now BELIEVE in GW...


Kevin may well be a 'Christian', but is not known as being excessively 'Right Wing' - at least nowhere as much as out Yank Cousins carry on....



BTW, for our overseas musical readers, Julia (the new deputy leader) was claimed to be 'climbing a stairway with Kevin'... :-)