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“Hey, check out the truck”: our political Summernats

08 Jul 05:44am

Filed under: Advertising, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Party Politics, Politial Campaigns, Summernats, Trucks, Utegate

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While Italian politics is unable to go a week without some 18-year-old girl claiming to have had a sixsome with the Prime Minister, Australian politics has more of an unusual fetish for utility vehicles.

Barely a week after things settled down with the utegate scandal we are now confronted by “Truckasaurus 09” or “The battle of competing political propaganda trucks” (I prefer the former).

This of course being a perfect example of the political maxim of letting the ute pull the debt truck.

This is a new model of what was an old Coalition campaign introduced to draw attention to the Keating Government’s foreign debt in 1996.

It was also the same year that the Coalition took control of Government from Labor after ten years in trucking wilderness.

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briperth says:

12:03pm | 13/07/09

The Australian dream. To own your own home. All pollies encourage us to borrow to buy our home, the debt to be paid off over 20 to 30 years. BUT!! some say it is not ok for the government to borrow money on our behalf, to be paid back over… Read more »
G says:

09:39am | 09/07/09

Not sure if it was Bowen I heard on the radio but the one and only comment that actually made the most sense was - the level of government debt can be compared to a household with an income of $100,000 borrowing an amount of $5,000. The liberal scare campaign… Read more »

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