Honestly, i don’t care about the media anymore. the polls are telling us they are having little impact in this campaign. Australians have woken up to them. After Albo gets in, I will expect nothing less than a Royal Commission into media diversity. But for now, I am happy to let them barrack for the Liberals knowing the people of Australia are rebelling against them.
Unfortunately politics in Australia is in a horrible state.
In 1 corner we have Scomo and his corrupt merry men.
In the other corner we have someone that won't state their policies (how do they expect the public - the swing voters) to understand what the party stands for? This is the 2nd election in a row that was the unloseable election for Labor. The 1st, Labor made 2 major errors, 1 - they kept Bill Shorten when the public were telling them (for at least 2 years) that they didn't want him. Repeated polls showing Labor as the preferred 2 party vote, but Shorten way behind Morrison as leader. 2 - They released some policies within the last week of the election that were clearly controversial. They got arrogant that they thought they had won before the votes were laid and decided to throw some policies that would never fly with swing voters.
This time around its a bit more of the same. Polls also showing Labor as the preferred 2 party vote, but again seem to indicate that the public doesn't really want Albo. Seriously, we've all seen Scomo the last few years, frankly a partially competent candidate should be wiping the floor with them. The fact that Albo doesn't shows that the public just don't have any connection with him whatsoever. They are trying a different tactic than 2 from the last time, but now seem like the party that doesn't really have an agenda, as they have decided to go with less is more on policy direction and its very easy for the government to then indicate that Albo is just saying what he thinks people want to hear as there isn't really a clear direction from the ALP.
Its been clear for a while now, that the environment is a big issue. The ALP could have easily put that as their major focus, they aren't getting the far righters voting for them anyway, so they aren't appealing to the climate deniers who wouldn't be voting ALP. See my post on the Global Warming thread, the ALP had a great chance to showcase their focus on the environment with the AGL / Mike Cannon Brookes issues going on right now, and the clear blank look that the government gave to that issue, but nope the ALP are all quiet on that front too.
Pretty much the 2 campaigns are:
ALP - Its Scomo as the alternative, vote for us
LNP - Its Albo, he doesn't know what he wants, stick to the devil you know
How about competing on the strength of your policies?
I can’t say I agree with this. 3 years ago, Labor brought in some pretty big policies (reduction in cancer treatment costs, Negative gearing, dumping franking credits among others). The Liberals and Media ran a massive scare campaign and it worked.
This time Labor have learnt and are giving the Liberals a dose of their own medicine. Like it or not, negative campaigning wins and positive campaigning doesn’t. You talk about Labor needing to have policies, but the Liberals have had no policies in 9 years, yet they have still somehow won 3 terms.
And you are also missing the bigger picture here. This election isn’t about voting Labor in. Its about booting the Liberals out. These donkeys deserve to be punished for their incompetence and corruption.
I still have scars from 2019. Hardly a day goes by where I don’t think about the sliding doors moment… how better Australia's COVID response would have been had Shorten won and worked with the states instead of working against them? Please remember that 6 weeks of campaigning does not make up for 3 years of failures. Fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
However, notwithstanding what I have said above, to say that Labor has no policies is simply not true. They have quite an extensive list of policies that can be obtained from their website. But blind Freddy can see that attacking the government’s failures is the best strategy.
Find out about Anthony Albanese's and Labor’s policies.
www.alp.org.au
There is a distinct group on here that are clear Labor life voters. Its not those people that need to be bought into an election campaign, you guys are always going to vote Labor. Its the swing voters in the middle you need to convince.
FWIW, I am not usually a Labor voter. I am a proud leftie. This is the first election in 20 years that I have given Labor my primary vote. That’s not because I wanted to, but because there was no other suitable candidate in my electorate. You have Labor and Greens. A couple of independents (none of them teal). Then One nation, UAP and the Liberals. The last 3 always go last for me.
But my party of choice is Reason Australia and voted them number 1 in the senate.
www.smh.com.au
