despite being among those worst impacted by current levels of climate change. If it's already above 50 C across your country, you have regular severe firestorms and drought, and people still can't be motivated to care, I'm not sure if humanity has a chance.

I think people voted against Labor rather than for Abbott - they were fed up with the backstabbing and feuds and failed to think it through. And Abbott went for short slogans - all lies, but easy to remember.

You would think that after the winters in the U.K. and the U.S. this year, that they will start thinking seriously, and how long can Australia remain out of step with the rest of the developed world? We've had bushfires and drought this summer, but most people write them off as normal. We will probably have to experience bushfires in spring, as we did last October, as a regular thing before the penny starts to drop, and perhaps some record flooding in winter as well.

They were right.

Polls are all Media generated and if we believed ALL the Polls,then Australian wouldnt have a Government or an Opposition,BUT in saying this Abbott is the worst PM behind Howard that we have had

according to the day, time and places where they're conducted, hence the margin of error always quoted, to cover any possible perceived discrepancy.

But if companies like Nielsen, Gallop, or even Newspoll fudged the figures, it wouldn't pass scrutiny by experts and the company would be totally discredited. It simply wouldn't be worth the effort, so yes, you can believe them, always taking into account the margin of error.