conservatives landslide in Australian national elections

[franksolich]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/conservative-leader-abbott-expected-win-australian-election-polls-022037221.html

Oh my.

I suspect that our good friend LC EFA in another time and place is smiling.....

Conservative leader Abbott sweeps into power in Australian elections

Australia's conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections on Saturday as voters punished the outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule and for failing to maximize the benefits of a now fading mining boom.
 
Abbott, a former boxer, Rhodes scholar and trainee priest, promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat.
 
"From today I declare that Australia is under new management and Australia is once more open for business," Abbott told jubilant supporters in Sydney.
 
It was frustration with Labor's leadership turmoil that cost the government dearly at the polls.
 
Labor dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2010, for Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard, only to reinstate Rudd as leader in June 2013 in a desperate bid to stay in power.....

[Bad Dog]

Unfortunately (for Aussies) Chuck you Schumer would be considered a conservative in Australlia.

[Jmartin]

Let's not forget it was a so called conservative that took the Aussies gun rights away.