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The longest election campaign ever? : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 1/2/2013

What advantages does the PM gain by announcing the election date this early?

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Well said, Waterhole.
Malcolm Turnbull seems credible, genuine, and honourable, unlike Abbott who photo-ops his way for the daily media by pretending to be what he isn't.
I realise that this is just pictorial acting, yet it betrays an attitude of pretence - The Great Pretender - which cuts across his believability.
Malcol Turnbull is a proven competent - he is a financial success story as well as a successful barrister, the sort of person who would be a realistic Prime Minister. That is, if the Liberal Party would come to its senses and put him back in power as its leader.
Or Malcolm could do what he has been asked by many - form a new party, and challenge all!
Posted by Ponder, Friday, 1 February 2013 5:02:35 PM
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Could JG's strategy be to tempt Tony Abbott into succumbing to the Government's and media's constant baiting to "show us your policies", so that they can then subject them to constant attack, as per their ongoing attacks on John Howard's Work Choices policy?

It remains to be seen whether Tony Abbott would be awake to such a ploy.

Re Malcolm Turnbull vs Tony Abbott, it is amusing how the Left prefers Malcolm to Tony. Admittedly, Malcolm, who professes to be 'progressive', undoubtedly would make a much better Labor man than Tony.
Posted by Raycom, Friday, 1 February 2013 11:12:40 PM
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Of course the left like Turnbull.

He is a copy of Rudd. An arrogant incompetent actor, with no idea of what Oz needs, only interested in his image.

Obviously a perfect leader for the left. Definitely not someone any thinking person would vote for.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 1 February 2013 11:49:49 PM
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Another 7 months of Labor wandering aimlessly from one self inflicted crisis to another.

In 3 days we have an election announcement, Thomson arrested finally, and now Chris Evans and Roxon announcing they are resigning from cabinet and abandoning Labor.

Abbott doesn't even have to do much campaigning as labor tears itself apart.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 2 February 2013 5:10:36 AM
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Abbott is trying to put on a brave face, but can't quite cut it. The longer he tries the worse he looks. Everyone is expecting him to say something, but no just roll over the same rehearsed lines.
After 4 years of negativity, and tea party tactic's and to pull on a photogenic face now, is not going to work.
Tony has once again been stumped by a female, and it will hurt.
You can't write anything posative about the man as he does not say anything new, and everyone else in his team has a gag on.
Posted by 579, Saturday, 2 February 2013 5:20:56 AM
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for AA:

Are the Liberals locked in to Abbott? I don't think so. Were he to make a momentous stuff-up they could decide that they need a new leader. I'm not sure that it would be Turnbull. He is more articulate than Abbott, but his world-view is closer to Labor's than to the core of the Liberal Party, notably on climate change, which is why he lost the top job in the first place.

If senior people in the government keep on leaving, Aboott won't have to do very much anyway. As someone has already noted, the government looks like sinking ship now.
Posted by Don Aitkin, Saturday, 2 February 2013 5:55:31 AM
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