Amanda Vanstone is a former Howard government minister, and regular columnist.
Australians just aren't radically right or radically left. The very best chance for people with views to the right of centre to win government and get some of their ideas implemented is to work together in that cause.
What we are seeing is no better than a lynch mob from the dark ages. Some in the media think they are above the law both overseas and at home.
Yasmin Abdel-Magied's Lest We Forget tweet was in itself regrettable. It also drew out some commentary that I found surprising.
You'll be amazed that Bill Shorten can, without the slightest blush, tell us how mean and nasty the government is in collecting overpayments from existing and former Centrelink recipients.
Normally when the other side of politics makes a big boo-boo there's a touch of schadenfreude tingling around.
Dragging a party from certain devastating defeat to governing in your own right and with a more manageable Senate seems like an incredible achievement to me.
It's just nonsense to imagine that people voted for Labor candidates because the Liberals weren't right-wing enough. Government members need to recognise that to get anything done they need Xenophon.
If you're already tired of the election that's just bad luck. There's plenty more to come… four more weeks of it.
The greens can sip Chardonnay in their inner city electorates or on their rural investment properties indifferent to the consequences of their policies.
The key question on July 2 will be: Who has the best credentials to be our prime minister?
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