Seat of Bank's on Knifes Edge- 1.5%

Melham's Trifecta, Back's Three Losers That Leaves His Bank's Dry!

Seat of Bank's on

Knifes Edge- 1.5%

Federal labor member for seat of bank's in western Sydney Daryl Melham, has a history of backing the wrong horse. He was behind the secret coup to oust current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in favour of union left factionist Julia Gillard, who is currently under investigation for fraud in two states. 

During Julia Gillard's Prime Ministership, Melham sided with disgraced former labor MP Craig Thomson, who's defending 173 fraud charges by Victorian Fraud and extortion squad detectives, and a further 150 charges by Fair Work Australia, and is yet to be charged by NSW fraud squad detectives for improper use of a credit card.

In late 2011, Melham helped install disgraced speaker of house of representatives Peter Slipper, who has too been charged for fraud, with the cab charge rip-off in which he defrauded the commonwealth. 

It would appear yet again that Melham has backed the wrong horse by re-installing former sacked PM Kevin Rudd to top job. Rudd is under investigation by QLD police for the deliberate destruction of documents seized as evidence during the Heiner affair into sexual abuse of children. 

Only two months after Rudd was installed as PM, his approval rating has taken a massive slump. In fact, for the first time, Tony Abbott leads by two points as preferred PM over Rudd, and leads by eight points on a two party preferred basis. Sportsbet has labor at $12.00 and LNP at $1.02. This is the highest recorded wager against the ALP. On Julia Gillard's worst approval rating, sportsbet had former PM at $9.50. Rudd has now eclipsed that figure.

All Melham has going for him now is his own personal record. Although his record is in fact very good and clean, for most new voters they would not be familiar with the reeling years of Hawke/Keating when Melham was a front bencher and got his first real taste of frontline Australian politics. 

For the young and uninitiated, they tend to trend with the young and the new, just as they did back in 2007 when they elected Kevin Rudd to office.

Liberal candidate David Coleman has come out of left field from camp Turnbull to make the switch from executive television to federal pollie. 

Whether it be Melham or Coleman, one thing is for sure, the seat of bank's will never be the once quiet safe ol' labor seat that slotted in with its other red borders of Watson and Blaxland. This seat is now at the mercy of its people rather than the people at the mercy of it's representative.