The debate
You can not have a Political commentary blog without talking about the Abbott v Gillard debate. I know that every commentator has already spoken about this debate but it has to be said “Thank the lord” that there is not going to be the three debates that Tony Abbott wants. As a matter of fact I do not think that he had enough political material to run one debate. Between them “moving forward” and “stopping the boats” I think that there was about 5 minutes of actual content. The only thing that made people tune in was the outside chance that one of them would pull a fiscal rabbit out of their hat and offer the voters a Kevin Rudd style hand out.
While boat people are a real concern to Australia, Australian are more concerned about hospitals and child care places. I can not see that the plight of the refugees is going to get voters to pencil the number one in a candidates box based on how their party says that they are going to deal with the issue.
The enviroment was glossed over with Gillard talking about community consultation groups and Abbott talking about his “Green Army”. Has anyone pointed out the that normal Army wears green, I’m just saying this is a bit confusing. There was no detail on either side as to how their solutions would improve the enviroment recover.
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