How Long Can Labor Survive?

[Matilda]

Watching Christopher Pyne in full flight in QT today, it's hard not to wonder just how long Labor can hang on. Crocodile tears from the Libs for the hard-working HSU members, but Craig Thomson is a total sleazebag. Labor needs his vote, but as long as he's still in parliament, he's a millstone around the government's neck. It's a no-win situation for them.

And a good budget is being sidelined while Thomson's alleged credit card abuses are catalogued over and over. The Murdoch hacks will be salivating.

The sooner preselection reforms are brought in, the better. We definitely need to demand higher standards from our MPs.