Australian Election 20th October
June 25th 2007 14:34
The big tip and don’t forget you heard it here is that John Howard will call an election not long after he hosts the APEC conference for October 20th. If this is the case it means we are just 4 months out from an election.
Kevin Rudd is still riding high in the polls although it does appear his lead is beginning to fall away. The big question everyone wants to know though is can he maintain his lead and does it matter what John Howard does between now and the election or have people just stopped listening to him.
Rudd and Labor are slowly being dragged into Howard’s idea of political campaigning and that is to wedge them on different issues.
Firstly there is the association between labor and unions or as Howard likes to put it union thugs.
The Liberals polling must be showing this is a negative for Labor and since Rudd was embarrassed by his wife’s company not paying employees correctly he has been effectively muted on any attacks on companies which use “work choices” to exploit workers conditions. As any attack by labor on businesses which use the laws would be meet with an expected response by the government of “What about your wife?”
So with labor silenced on their attack on “work choices” the liberals have gone in hard where union excesses can be shown and labor has no comeback. They can’t say this may be true but unions are only standing up to businesses that seek to exploit workers as there own leader has a wife who did just that. Instead they have to sit there and cop it and expel every union official who is caught on camera swearing.
Essentially there greatest strength has now become their greatest weakness they have no comeback to Howard’s union bashing.
I will be attempting to blog each day up until the election on my observations of the campaigns and the politics. Each week I will attempt to give me view on if an election was held on the weekend just who would win.
My prediction: If an election had have been held last weekend Labor would have won with about a 4 seat majority
Kevin Rudd is still riding high in the polls although it does appear his lead is beginning to fall away. The big question everyone wants to know though is can he maintain his lead and does it matter what John Howard does between now and the election or have people just stopped listening to him.
Rudd and Labor are slowly being dragged into Howard’s idea of political campaigning and that is to wedge them on different issues.
Firstly there is the association between labor and unions or as Howard likes to put it union thugs.
The Liberals polling must be showing this is a negative for Labor and since Rudd was embarrassed by his wife’s company not paying employees correctly he has been effectively muted on any attacks on companies which use “work choices” to exploit workers conditions. As any attack by labor on businesses which use the laws would be meet with an expected response by the government of “What about your wife?”
So with labor silenced on their attack on “work choices” the liberals have gone in hard where union excesses can be shown and labor has no comeback. They can’t say this may be true but unions are only standing up to businesses that seek to exploit workers as there own leader has a wife who did just that. Instead they have to sit there and cop it and expel every union official who is caught on camera swearing.
Essentially there greatest strength has now become their greatest weakness they have no comeback to Howard’s union bashing.
I will be attempting to blog each day up until the election on my observations of the campaigns and the politics. Each week I will attempt to give me view on if an election was held on the weekend just who would win.
My prediction: If an election had have been held last weekend Labor would have won with about a 4 seat majority
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