THE DONKEY VOTE

Don’t forget the blockbuster debate today on environment.

It is Peter Garrett vs Malcolm Turnbull.

I can imagine the Coalition camp hoping maybe even planning a few tricks and ambushes.

I can also imagine the Labor camp holding their breath.

LINK: Turnbull, Garrett to slug it out

I am confident something interesting will come out of this debate. Stay tuned.

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Well we have had core and none core promises. Now we have a new one from John Howard.

“It’s no one statement that totally, well very rarely, is it one statement that totally sort of, adumbrates the whole thing,” he said.

“It’s the aggregate impression.”

John Howard

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Do I even need to mention that interest rates went up? If you don’t know by this point then you’ve probably been living on Mars. Of course Rudd and Labor are going on the attack since this has basically been the Coalition’s major strength in their polling, their economic management.

Also apparently is a Garrettesque moment, Costello told an ABC presenter a few months back that rates would not rise in November. While this was perhaps a silly thing to say, I don’t think it’s a massive gaffe especially when it happened months back. I basically just wanted to use the word “Garrettesque” in a sentence. Costello also claimed that a rise in interest rates was a sign of good economic management which is true in a way because of the way inflation and low unemployment work (I’m not going into details because I’m not a economist and no doubt I’ll have three hundred people comment and correct it) but it’s realistically just an attempt at making the rate rise look good for the public.

The (former) Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson of that other party claims that the Nationals are being overshadowed in this campaign. Um, so? How’s that news? Aren’t the Nationals used to being overshadowed yet?

Hockey released the government’s Industrial Relations policy yesterday with such new initiatives as grandparents being able to take up to 52 weeks of unpaid leave to help the parents look after the child. It’s a nice idea I have to say although I wonder how many grandparents would take up the offer. Labor and the unions have out and said what you might expect them to say… too little, too late and doesn’t fix the general unfairness of the system. This policy will at least have the effect of shoring up the elderly vote for the Coalition.

Democrats say something about something and I don’t care. The ABC election news website gives them way too much time considering their total lack of influence these days.

Here’s a hard hitting news flash: the Climate Institute says that recent polling done by themselves, the Climate Institute, show that climate change, something that the Climate Institute consider very important, is likely to sway voters. Mmm that sounds convincing to me. A tip from me? Never believe any polling done by anyone that doesn’t even have some semblance of a neutral name.

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