wish my country would bring in a political party who have actually got a clue about managing the economy, GFC aside our current government has taken Australia from (don't quote me on this my recollection of figures isn't great) a 20 billion dollar surplus to 50 billion dollars in deficit with just one three year term in office and added another 10 billion so far in their current term, and all that spending hasn't actually done anything, unemployment in Australia now sits at a national figure of 5% (officially) the highest it has been for thirty years and the number of cuts to our health care sector are simply staggering, with more on the way, our police forces are virtually ineffective due to crippling budget restrictions seeing crime rates in all capital cities skyrocketing and the federal government wants to cut even more funding from these sectors to instigate a national broadband scheme which actually won't have national effects, it's ludicrous, and on top of that the government has introduced a carbon tax (with no fixed limit designed to increase exponentially year on year) and a "super" mining tax (insanely high taxes on mining which is actually our largest source of steady employment and chief source of international envestment in Australia, not to mention our chief area of exportation) their policies simply do not work and do not make sense but thanks to compulsory voting and the stupidity of some Australians even if there is a change in government they will be powerless to change anything for their first term in office because labour (current government) will combine with our largest second-line party to block anything a new government tries to change