Politicians Gone Wild
It’s heating up. Two and a half days until we vote and things are getting crazy.
First up, children overboard, for real this time. Right on queue, a boat full of asylum seekers arrives off the coast of WA in a leaky boat. Some of them apparently fell into the water, although it is unclear at this stage the extract number of children who were thrown overboard by negligent, Australian-job-taking terrorists.
Link “The Royal Australian Navy has rescued 16 people, including 10 children, from a sinking boat off the north-west coast of Western Australia.”
This is perfect… for the Labor party. It gives them every opportunity to bring up the opportunism that the Liberals utilised back in 2001 to help them win the election.
Next up, the husband of the Liberal candidate for the marginal seat of Lindsay has been caught distributing fake Labor party leaflets espousing over the top Muslim sympathies and solidarity for the Bali bombers. Classic dirty tricks.
Link “The Liberal Party has expelled two members and notified the Electoral Commission of an incident involving election campaign workers distributing material it says is false and offensive.”
It’s early days for this last story but on the face of it it look pretty bad. My ultra cynical side even half-heartedly suggests it was a Labor stunt. Tony Jones on Lateline was just asking some interesting questions about how the Labor party found out about it. Realistically, it was most likely done by stupidly loyal idiots and not condoned by anyone higher up in the Liberal party than the janitor, but it’s still going to play badly.
Stories like these are sure to capture the imagination of the media and detract from the Howard government’s last minute election message. I reckon it will be a sleepless night at the Liberal party campaign headquarters tonight.
Lateline is such a fucker for the pollies. The minders have been up since 5:30am preparing for a big day of campaign commitments, they’ve fought off eleven interviews and five press conferences and are pretty well bushed by 8pm. Then a scandal breaks. Back in the good old days you’d have until the next morning to get the story straight, but now Tony Jones is calling trying to get a statement and suddenly you need to sober up a scriptwriter and slap a tie on a weary pollie at half past ten at night.
Still, I reckon we should have bi-annual elections. I love this shit.
First up, children overboard, for real this time. Right on queue, a boat full of asylum seekers arrives off the coast of WA in a leaky boat. Some of them apparently fell into the water, although it is unclear at this stage the extract number of children who were thrown overboard by negligent, Australian-job-taking terrorists.
Link “The Royal Australian Navy has rescued 16 people, including 10 children, from a sinking boat off the north-west coast of Western Australia.”
This is perfect… for the Labor party. It gives them every opportunity to bring up the opportunism that the Liberals utilised back in 2001 to help them win the election.
Next up, the husband of the Liberal candidate for the marginal seat of Lindsay has been caught distributing fake Labor party leaflets espousing over the top Muslim sympathies and solidarity for the Bali bombers. Classic dirty tricks.
Link “The Liberal Party has expelled two members and notified the Electoral Commission of an incident involving election campaign workers distributing material it says is false and offensive.”
It’s early days for this last story but on the face of it it look pretty bad. My ultra cynical side even half-heartedly suggests it was a Labor stunt. Tony Jones on Lateline was just asking some interesting questions about how the Labor party found out about it. Realistically, it was most likely done by stupidly loyal idiots and not condoned by anyone higher up in the Liberal party than the janitor, but it’s still going to play badly.
Stories like these are sure to capture the imagination of the media and detract from the Howard government’s last minute election message. I reckon it will be a sleepless night at the Liberal party campaign headquarters tonight.
Lateline is such a fucker for the pollies. The minders have been up since 5:30am preparing for a big day of campaign commitments, they’ve fought off eleven interviews and five press conferences and are pretty well bushed by 8pm. Then a scandal breaks. Back in the good old days you’d have until the next morning to get the story straight, but now Tony Jones is calling trying to get a statement and suddenly you need to sober up a scriptwriter and slap a tie on a weary pollie at half past ten at night.
Still, I reckon we should have bi-annual elections. I love this shit.
posted by Sam Cox at
23:33
1 Comments:
Well, the Coalition called the tune, and now they have to pay the piper (ah, glorious clichés!). The fear-based campaigns worked the last couple of times; without anything to scaremonger about, they're left without many ideas.
Basically, they've run out of credibility. Howard's government has lied too many times, too blatantly, and without any apparent remorse. Australians are just generally tired of their crap, and now that there's an even vaguely credible alternative, the Libs are out. The pandering to the yanks hasn't helped his case; it's so obviously a case of monkeying whatever the White House tells them.
Even more fundamentally, there's the Coalitions basic platform of encouraging economic growth over everything else (e.g., social services). Rampant capitalism, in other words. That's nice, while there's room to grow. However, we're now rapidly running out of planet, and all that CO2 will end up meaning we're going to have to curb all that expansion. No more evermoreism (not that it every made sense in a closed system). I suspect that the Libs are going to have to reinvent themselves to ever get elected again, and about bloody time.
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22 November 2007 05:38
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