![]() ABC Online | Unhappy new political year ABC Online After all, what's the alternative? The Labor Party has to hope and believe that things can only get better. 2011 was indeed an annus horribilis, marked by ministers lurching from crisis to crisis, pausing only to occasionally shoot themselves (or ... Labor's longest, deepest polling slump PM Julia Gillard refuses to be drawn on her future Van Onselen: Abbott best of the rest |