So according to Lateline tonight, despite the apparent plot to stage a dawn service, Labor will have moved further ahead in tomorrows newspoll.

Now personally this doesn't surprise me at all, because what we've seen constantly from the Liberal party is attacks against Labor based on completely trivial matters.

Sure Kevin Rudd met with Brian Burke, but so did lots and lots of people. It's not a significant issue.

Sure Kevin Rudd's memory of his fathers death and the surrounding events when he was 11 may be glorified but it's not a significant issue.

Sure Kevin Rudd may have been going to do a staged Anzac dawn service, but it's not a significant issue.

Why don't the liberals understand this? The Australian public doesn't care about issues of such insignificance. They don't directly effect any of us. The Australian public cares about the integrity of leaders when it turns out Australia was giving money to a corrupt dictator or when we go to war with the corrupt dictator we were giving money to. The Australia public cares about health and education, not what happened to our future prime minister when he was 11.

Do the Liberals actually want to win the next election? Can they possibly be so deluded to think that constantly talking about such minor issues will result in anything other than people just getting sick of hearing the Liberals talk?

I'm most likely just going to vote for Pedro. Honestly, I'm not big on politics.

However I am confused in regards to this latest scandal. Firstly, how can you hold a false dawn ceremony? Secondly, why is a dawn ceremony a bad thing?

I just realised I'm gonna have to vote in this :o

And I work for the government, so a vote for Labor will make me feel dirty...

Not as dirty as voting for a party that let Australia give $300 million to Saddam Hussein. That was the Federal Liberal Government.

I just wish I had a lesser evil to choose from.

As it stands my vote's as red as my blood.

Kevin Rudd is still the underdog, In my opinion the Labor party is stale from the ground up, inside and out. Also, Rudd doesnt make policy the labor party and unions make policy which ain't good.

I'm inclined to think that the whole "the unions run Labor" thing is bullshit propaganda...and of course the labor party make policy, it's not just Rudd sitting in a room all day writing up policies while the rest of the party sit down drinking tea; it's a team effort.

GO TEAM!

There's an election?! Damn I hate being over 18..

I don't watch the news or read the business section of the newspaper, somebody tell me which person is the less evil one

That depends on your perspective :P

Kevin Rudd is the least evil. Also he looks like Tintin!

wOOt! Anyone who looks like Tintin gets my vote :D

I think the fact that Kevin Rudd is not evil is enough to secure him victory.

Rudd danced on mornings with Kerri Anne, he just lost my vote. Yes, that's how lightly I take voting.

Kevin Rudd really pisses me off for some reason. No idea why, but he does.

And Here's why you'll never vote for the Liberals again. And if that isn't enough, watch the end of this.

Same here, he seems pretty far up himself.

And John Howard isn't?????!?!?!

He doesn't seem to. He always looks like he's about to cry.

Can a third candidate enter? Mark Lathum should run again! :D :P

Duh, 3rd candidate is Bob Brown, the Greens bloke. :P

I wish Natasha Stott Despoja was still leading the Democrats...she was a fiesty young lass! :D

Oh yeah the greens, they're basically invisible anyway. :P

It's not a presidential election. You vote for the people you like, in order of preference in your electorate. There can be any number of political parties with leaders running for election in any electorate, although you can't win government unless you get a majority, so you have to have candidates for your party running in at least 51% of electorates and all would be better.