As the end of this policy-light election campaign draws closer, the character contest between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese is only getting fiercer, writes Phillip Coorey.
Until the last election, there had been a long-standing convention that the leaders of both major parties would address the National Press Club during the final week of the campaign.in Blacktown in Sydney’s west, the site of former prime minister Gough Whitlam’s 1972 “It’s Time” speech.Why Labor wanted to rekindle memories of Whitlam’s profligacy for those old enough to remember, just days before an election in which its own tax-and-spend agenda was under fierce assault, was anyone’s guess.
Longman was held by Labor and thought to be safe. No one had visited the seat until that point during the campaign. Two days later it fell to the Coalition. Thus, the contest over the next two weeks will be more than ever about the leaders’ respective characters. It received barely any coverage. “Yesterday I gave a 30-minute speech, I haven’t got a question about it here this morning,” he told the press pack on Friday. “A 30-minute speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the presence of 130 business leaders. They could have fitted 300, they tell me – if they had enough room – in front of former prime minister Paul Keating.
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