The first rule of politics is: there are no rules. In the federal fist fight for the keys to the Lodge anything goes, writes Joe_Hildebrand | via newscomauHQ
Governments have everything at their disposal: Full ministerial offices, whole departments with armies of bureaucrats and of course executive power.
It can’t be called a federal election campaign if the major parties aren’t slandering each other, right? Picture: AAP Image/Erik AndersonWhen the government is the government and the opposition is the opposition, the government by definition holds all the cards. But if you can goad the government into taking off its jacket and rolling up its sleeves — if you can turn the prime minister into the leader of the Liberal party — then suddenly you’ve got a fair fight on your hands.
As a shaken Turnbull — once an archetypal lofty statesman who was rattled out of his gilded cage — transformed into an attack dog, an emboldened Shorten — a textbook partisan playmaker and political assassin — transformed into a lofty statesman. But that is no longer the rule. It would be nice to think that the new rule is that an educated and engaged electorate demands clear policies from an opposition before it is prepared to give them the keys to the Lodge but sadly that is not the case. Instead, the new rule is that there are no rules.The federal election will be a tight race. Australia will be watching these marginal seats./display/newscorpaustralia.
Indeed, it was this kindly uncle persona that won him the next election after Beazley’s arch-nemesis Mark Latham became leader and unleashed his pent-up wave of not just policies but ideas and single-handedly rewrote the national political narrative. And that is because nothing in politics is coherent anymore. Not only do the two parties present alternate narratives but they are communicated simultaneously in alternate dimensions.has obtained analysis by media research group Meltwater that compared the responses to both Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten after the Budget Reply and also cross referenced the responses between conventional news media and social media.
Moreover, if we look at the response to Shorten alone the difference in positive sentiment is just over 3 per cent in the mainstream media versus almost 54 per cent on social media. That means Shorten is almost 18 times more popular on social media than in the news — a factor that is almost impossible to explain by natural forces. Far more likely is that Labor and the left generally have a much better ground game on social media and are far superior at promoting their people and policies.
This is why even after it has been handed down we now see the government running around happily plugging up whatever holes people don’t like as though they’re tarring the deck of the Titanic.
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