[Aliantha]

I heard on the news that Tony Abbot is not going to contest the leadership of the party. I suspect that if Mr Howard is able to retain his seat (still undecided) that he'll stick around for that six month period until someone else raises their head.

Maybe Brendan Nelson will give it a shot although he's not too popular with anyone up north. It'd be nice to see him get slammed too (in my opinion). I think we'll end up with Turnbull in opposition. He's very smooth I agree, but I think he'll trip himself up because he's really only with the Libs because they were the first ones to offer him a job. Apparently (a little inside info here) he doesn't really identify himself as right wing or anything else. He's one of those ones who'll just say whatever he thinks the person he's talking to wants to hear.

Definitely not the sort of person you want leading the country.