And cheap populism has bought you a cake, Doc.
The Opposition Leader’s support rose from 12 to his highest rating of 17 per cent.
Make a wish!

Don’t touch the bottom with the knife or you’ll have to kiss Julie Bishop
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Hold onto your hats, punters! Bren-doc Nelson has showed a hint of metal in answering a journalist’s question at a doorstop interview and hinted at a secret and cunning plan of James Bond villain proportions.
QUESTION:
You want to Prime Minister, how are you going to turn that polling [9% preferred Prime Minister rating in Newpoll] around?
DR NELSON:
You watch.
I haven’t edited that answer at all, GrodsReaders. That’s it. Kevin Rudd should be trembling in his jocks.

I seems that the people of Australia have a hearing problem.
In today’s Newspoll Brendan Nelson’s support as preferred Prime Minister has fallen from an abysmal 9% to an even more abysmal 7%, while the Liberal Party’s two-party-preferred vote has dropped to 37%. But statistics gathered by Newspoll and not published in The Australian have been leaked to GrodsCorp, and they are shocking.
Q: Which of the following would you prefer as Prime Minister?
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| Brendan Nelson: 12% |
Herpes: 88% |
Q: To which Party would you give your preference if an election were held tomorrow?
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| Liberal Party: 21% |
The Taliban: 79% |