Here is what I would do

The polls are bad, the opposition is leaderless, the press is disintegrating, the mining boom is collapsing and the people are restless.

Must be time for another government handout ;-) Just kidding Virginia.

So if I were Julia then I would be planning an election.  Preferably a double dissolution election - for October.

But even a half senate election will be good enough to throw a bit of chaos into the mix.

Fairfax have lost their corporate memory and the Murdoch press is looking sick. Rupert will be lucky to evade jail when Lord Leveson reports.  Channel 10 is near death and the old Packer mags - including the Womens Weekly have run away to Germany.  All the usual suspects are cacking themselves about their future.

And I am loving it.

Big changes in our media dynamic are a good thing.  Not so much for the preening insiders - but very much so for we outsiders.  Because our media needs a big shakeup and has needed it for a decade or more.  The lies and the bias might survive for a few moments longer but eventually Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt will go the way of the dimwitted dodo.

The only reason they survived so long is because of what little Johnny did to dumb down our education system - and our students - who have since become right wing bloggers ;-)

But back to the election.  October will be a perfect time because by then Labor will have most of their ducks in a row.  All the big policy items will have been outlined and discussed.  And the biggest and most important of those is education.

And where will the Coalition and the mining magnates and the Murdoch press be with their combined opposition programme?  Seriously, who cares?

Perhaps they can enlist Gina's persuasive capability for a few words in support.

The only possible stain on Labor's agenda will be what Nicola Roxon is proposing to do around national security.  But I wouldn't worry about that too much because none of our voters have a blue clue about the implications - and about 30% of them won't even mind if she wants to store our communications data for a couple of years.

So go for it Julia - October looks good to me.