Comments on: National Party over

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:24:36 +0000

(I believe the advert does mention “authorised by the National Party…” so they do get a minor mention.)
So now that Brough is running for Pres do you think he is more pro-merger?
Why don’t they just merge and become the Liberal National Party. We all know after a few years parties often drop the last part of their names (eg National Country Party in NSW). Liberals think their name is so important, and Nats won’t join under just the Liberal name (they could do that today if they wanted to be a Liberal).
I also hear grass roots Libs are keen to have a cleaned up constitution to get away from the factions. So win-win.

By: Hosea Bob

Hosea Bob — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:06:42 +0000

Judging by the local Government election, and the last Federal Government election – I would say that the number of people who vote only based on party lines is diminishing.
Future election campaigns need to be about people and ideas – not tired ideology and parties.
So I welcome the Borg going it alone, he’s certainly not going to get much help from Mcardle or Flegg.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:05:14 +0000

That’s a good idea. I’ve just watched the ad – it’s terrible.

By: vee

vee — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:41:39 +0000

Given the Libs/Nats are the one party anyway, it doesn’t matter in the slightest. The only people who argue against the merger are the politicians and very involved party members, to the rest of the country it makes sense. Not to mention that classical liberals have absolutely no useful power in the Liberal party. A united conservative party by any name just makes sense.

By: Graham Young

Graham Young — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:16:12 +0000

They’ve now switched on the site. Obviously no-one understands that it’s a 24 hour media cycle now and if you let the press know about something it has to be live then.
But it still hijacks your back button. How rude!
Perhaps we should do a joint effort critiquing the site. I’m just looking at the video. Not YouTube, and not good quality

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:56:18 +0000

Springborg’s stupid website just tried to trap me there. Back button in my browser didn’t work.