The " Great Debate " ! What debate ?
Last nights confrontation between two political leaders was as tame as a meeting of intellectuals. Both were desperately trying to avoid saying anything that could be regarded as a gaffe - and therefore the " debate " became a colourless repetition of the political points that had been rehashed so many times before.
At least they were civil to one another. The fact that one was a man and the other a woman inhibited any kind of debate where " sex " reared it's ugly head, but being scrupulously polite and dodging the main issues did little to allow those watching to reach a judgemental conclusion.
The only real issues for this election now seem confined to the advertisements being aired on TV.
The opposition are hammering the appalling record of the Rudd government in broken election promises on fuel-watch and grocery-watch, and the abysmal waste on money and lack of supervision from the insulation debacle and school building programme.
The government is trying to distance itself from these horrors - and to insinuate that they were Rudd blunders. The main attack is a scare campaign that if the opposition win - they will reinstate Work Choice.
Last nights debate was sterile - and only served to prove that the real issues in this election will be hidden behind a smokescreen of good manners.
No wonder it will be one of the shortest political campaigns in the history of politics !
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