Labor has its fake campaign too

Posted by the piping shrike at Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The media has become as awed of the ritual of the campaign as they were of the Budget in May when Costello announced the last round of tax cuts. If they are surprised that such a major launch is announced now rather than later in the campaign when it might make more electoral sense, then it is because they under-estimate the urgency of the Liberals' morale that a strong start of a big round of tax cuts are intended to address. However if the media is taking the Liberals campaign start too much at face value, they are making the same mistake with Labor's start on Workchoices. Labor has its internal needs too.

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