No. And I don't think it is now.
Since last year, the socialists have mobilised their allies in the media and social media to deliberately spread a lot of misinformation about the current government and its policies. Made up quotes supposed from the Prime Minister. Made up statistics - we have a group called 'GetUp' that was basically helped into existence by Americans 'MoveOn' group and taught its tactics.
So far the conservative side of politics has not done a good job of countering this. That's partly because I think that we were caught unaware - politics has never been this dirty in Australia before and we weren't expecting it, partly because we're getting on with actually trying to govern the country, and care about doing that, rather than being popular, and partly because it's over two years until the next election needs to happen, and by then, the lies will be pretty obvious (for example, when people find out that pensions haven't been cut for the elderly and disabled - an example of one of the lies), and also realise that Labor doesn't actually have any policies to deal with the debt they created - at the moment Labor's tactics are to oppose any cuts, and ignore the debt situation. Eventually they are going to have to say how they'll solve it and at that point, they'll either not have a plan, or will have to propose cuts that will be even less popular than the ones the current government is proposing. People were assuming there was plenty of time to get the electorate back - and I think they are right - but it does mean right at the moment, Labor is ahead in the polls - and calling an early election would therefore be risky. I actually think once a campaign is under way, we'd get back a lot of people - but whether we could get back enough is difficult to say. It'd be a very close election.
Thanks for the explanation.
I apologize to you and your compatriots for the generalization. At times, it seems like Australia is fast-tracking the Leftist agenda we see here in the States.