If we cast our minds back to the 2004 election, a final week visit to Tasmania by Howard and Latham became both an electoral turning point and defining image of that campaign. Could history be about to repeat itself? This time it won’t be about forests. It’s health that will get the leaders to Braddon.
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How Tony (Blair) was taken out of context
Whatever you make of Tony Abbott’s clarification, there’s another interesting point here: Abbott quoting Tony Blair. And quoting this quote in particular. When it comes to Blair’s “fairness” = “jobs” line, the Coalition can’t ever seem to get enough, writes Jane Nethercote.
Ruddisms: A very Crikey glossary
It might be John Howard who’s stuck in the 1950s on policy, but it’s Rudd who sometimes speaks like he’s walked straight off the set of Happy Days. Crikey has the glossary, writes Jane Nethercote.
“You’re a liar!” Tony Abbott strikes again
The pressure of the election campaign appears to be undermining Health Minister Tony Abbott’s better judgment, leading to another apology earlier this week after a heated on air exchange with Tasmanian state Health Minister Lara Giddings.
The Daily Verdict: Day 17 and Labor should buy Tony Abbott a drink
Tony Abbott made the big contribution to the election campaign yesterday but before getting too carried away the significance of it all it pays to remember that what most people see, hear and read during an election campaign is what they want to see, hear and read, writes Richard Farmer.
Canberra’s toxic political culture
Yesterday Tony Abbott told The Insiders that the election campaign will not be personal, but it will be about a person’s character and capacity. Doublespeak at its very best.
Hospitals: they’re Abbott’s ideas, but Rudd’s making the running
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing called its report tabled in the Parliament last December “The Blame Game: Report on the inquiry into health funding”. Kevin Rudd has clearly read it.
Mersey Hospital back on the critical list
There were no ifs, buts or maybes when Prime Minister John Howard strode on to the grounds of the Mersey Hospital at Latrobe in Tasmania and announced that the Federal Government was taking it over to protect the good people of nearby Devonport from the intention of the Tasmanian Labor Government to downgrade its facilities.
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Tony Abbott: it’s all about getting re-elected.
Next to Brough, Abbott the picture of restraint
Another day of campaigning and another Commonwealth Government move in to an area traditionally controlled by the States.
