de-constructing the election

these a comments from others posted elsewhere

"Haydon said that "a drover's dog could lead the Labor Party to victory, the way the country is". Labor under Hawke won the 1983 election handily,

The same can be said for Abbott,"a drover's dog could lead the Liberal Party to victory, the way Labor is" Abbott never won this election, Labor lost it. How sad these political times are when you can be a prime minister by default."

"Amazing how absolutely nobody mentions the 'M' word - Murdoch. Pink batts, leadership challenges, Julia's carbon tax 'lie' - that's all we ever heard about, ad nauseum.

The fact that the Gillard-Rudd government presided over the world's strongest economy (according to virtually every economic measure available) was barely ever mentioned in the media, unless it was to snigger. When the GFC struck, the ALP kept the economy strong by refusing to go along with the austerity measures that made an economic ruin of so many countries and sent unemployment into the stratosphere. But of course, the Murdoch media weren't interested in this, because it proved the fallacy of neoliberalism.

An Abbott government will reverse this disgracefully underrated success by applying its neoliberal machete to anything and everything it doesn't like - which is the poor, the unemployed, public assets, the public service, public education, the minimum wage, renewable energy and permanent job security. But of course, it will deliver on tax cuts for the rich and welfare for the middle classes."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-07/labor-retribution-begins-after-poll-defeat/4943512

Australians will be complaining about the coalition before we know it...