Campaigns

There are some things that haven’t been ignored this election: babies, old Julia, new Julia, Kevin Rudd, Mark Latham, pretty much all past Labor leaders, maternity leave, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, Peter Costello, debates, the seat of Lindsay, asylum seekers in the seat of Lindsay.

You may have also noticed that, despite this campaign being anything but boring, it has also not been about many things. Here’s a few to ponder:

1. Childcare: The debate around childcare seems to have been sucked up by that of parental leave. But we shouldn’t forget that children will need somewhere to go when their parents go back to work and, short of running for the LNP in North Queensland, they may have to be put somewhere. Labor rolled out Kate Ellis to try and sell their broken promise on this earlier in the year. But despite the Government going back on their promise to build 260 new childcare centres, the Coalition haven’t talked much about it either except playing with the indexation of the rebate.

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Can anyone help me out? I’m looking for the fat bloke in braces who was meant to be running the country after Labor got elected.

Surely you’ve seen him, the Union Boss who was meant to be terrorising the nation’s taffeta dress shops. Maybe he is hiding in an ante-room off the PM’s office.

There’s nothing like a healthy dose of reality to blunt most political scare campaigns, but even by the Punch’s Scary Creatures Benchmark (PSCB*), the Liberals effort at the least election was up the with the best of them.

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