Election Debate
Note: Labor MP Richard Marles and Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella are among our favourite contributors to The Punch, and we have asked them to write a piece every Friday during this five-week election campaign giving their take on events.
After a difficult week two for Labor, this week began with polls predicting that Tony Abbott would become the 28th Prime Minister of Australia.
As the spotlights wheeled around and began to focus on Tony we caught him running for cover like an escaping prisoner.
The economy? He doesn’t want to know about it. Another debate? Not on your life.
Continue reading "Labor Diary: Tony, Brian and the Straightjacket" »
In this unusual election campaign where the Prime Minister spent the first two weeks pretending to be someone she isn’t, but who has now welcomed her real self to centre stage, and where the Opposition Leader has mused on national television about how he’s also worried his real self might bust out and start smashing up the joint, the winner should begin their victory speech with a time-honoured showbiz phrase.
“I’d like to thank the Academy.” What better way to celebrate the victory of Jules or Tones in the role of best actor in the campaign to become prime minister?
If there’s any prizes on offer today though the winner, hands down, is the Leader of the Opposition who takes out the title for dumbest remark of the campaign to date with his “no means no” shocker about the election debate.
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Kaz says:
No means No means apparently anything you want it to mean when it’s the hook for your article..I tell my kids no means no and they know I know that they know it means NO..I told the cat No means No and it was fine until I repeated it another… Read more »
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Bianca Olenick says:
Wake up to yourself Penberthy you moron. If you are supposedly to report the news at least have the good grace to report it accurately. Mr Abbott did say in his statement (immediately after the out of context crap reproduced above) that, “she said no! and I believed her that… Read more »
If the Leaders’ Debate on Sunday night was meant to be an early rehearsal of the battle for the minds of Australian voters, it left online spectators mostly disappointed and divided over the result.
While Channels Nine and Seven relied on their respective squiggly lines to give an instant reaction to the two leaders and journalists passed judgment afterwards, the real debate as to who won or lost the battle for voters’ minds was played out in the flood of comments in cyberspace, particularly to news sites.
Both Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott failed to inspire a large proportion of commenters in what many thought was a lacklustre rehearsal for election day.
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Do I Have To Vote? says:
Reg - what about a plan with some flexibility to deal with unforeseen incidents? And where would Labor have been when the GFC hit without a nice large surplus to distribute? So nobody would vote for a leader with vision - how sad is that? A total indictment of us… Read more »
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Gary Webb says:
Billy B, no I don’t need to know that, even though so much has been made of what Kevin Rudd’s wife and Malcolm Turnbull were worth, I really don’t think it’s any of my business. My point, although I never spelled it out, was that If I had had all… Read more »
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