Over at Club Troppo, Ken Parish looks at an alternative way of presenting Julia Gillard and the Labor government: as quiet achievers. And he examines why this frame clashes so wildly with the media’s presentation of political events.
Food for thought!
Some idiot writing at the Herald-Sun (a Bolt understudy, I believe) was crowing what a disaster it was that only 55% of people polled supported the flood relief levy, when obviously it should have been much higher, what with it being such a nobrainer.
This after his paper and every other MSM organ had run a negative line about the levy.
IMO the only bright side to the universal anti-Labor pile-on is the underlying Hung Parliament Derangement Syndrome that drives so much of it.
As long as Gillard’s cabinet, partyroom, and particularly the managers of government business in the chambers, manage the affairs of state properly then Julia holds all the cards. The anti-government forces don’t have anything if they can’t do anything more than pass the occasional pet project of the Indies.
It pains me slightly to draw this analogy, but today’s Coalition might actually turn out to be as politically lost as Labor were during the final years of Whitlam’s leadership in Opposition. In which case HPDS is the new Maintain the Rage.