Same horse, same race, a new jockey won't change much

So now the Aussie PM Abbott has survived hs spill motion and said he'd start 'good government' - and what was he doing before, if that's the case? - and this week has shown nothing of the new leaf he was supposed to have turned over. More captains calls, more verbal assaults and insults at any that do not agree with him and more media frenzy over how long he can last.

The thing is, will changing the jockey alter the race?

My belief is that it will not. The LNP has been the most repressive, the most unilaterally unforgiving, the cruelest government this country has seen since the original landing by Cook.

Over 87% of frontline services that help victims of domestic violence have lost their funding completely and most still don't know what they will finally end up with. The changes to the Centrelink, Aged Pension, and Medicare systems are directly aimed at the young, the poor, the low income families and the elderly. The rich have benefited from tax breaks and superannuation benefits. Businesses, most especially mining, have seen huge amounts of public funds given to them as well as the repeal of the carbon tax. Laws have been changed to allow the state to hide more of the funding it gets from businesses and laws have been enacted which impact huge numbers of innocent bikies for the sake of a few crooked individuals.

All this from the same party, the LNP. The ministers who are being touted as possible replacements for Abbott are ministers in this same government, so they either agree with what has been done or cared too little to try and change the decisions.

In fact, it's less like changing the jockey in a horse race and more like a pit stop in Formula One. They went out with the wrong rubber on the car, they have lost ground and now want to pit early in the hope they can regain ground before the race finishes at the next election. The car is the same, the mechanics are the same, the team is the same, all they want to do is scrap the worn out tyres and put some better rubber on, but not even Bridgestone could help when the party is heading in the wrong direction!