The above video seems a fair enough assessment of last night’s return leaders debate. The policy vacuity is howlingly obvious, again leaving us to ponder whose makeup we like best. Let me just say in passing that this video also shows why TV tends to employee hot young things as presenters.
In other election news there was some better poll news for the Government:
KEVIN Rudd’s return as Prime Minister has so dramatically lifted Labor support in Queensland that the Coalition could lose up to four seats in and around Brisbane.
But any Labor gains in Mr Rudd’s home state would be swamped by losses in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, putting the Coalition into government.
A state-by-state and demographic analysis of the Newspoll surveys since the election was called, conducted exclusively for The Australian, reveals Mr Rudd’s return as leader has lifted Labor’s stocks in every mainland state, in all age groups, country and city, and among men and women.
Support for the Prime Minister among women is now higher than it was for Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, during the last nine months of her leadership.
The biggest lift for Labor and Mr Rudd has been in Queensland…Labor’s primary vote in Queensland has jumped by eight percentage points to 37 per cent – up four percentage points since the 2010 election and pushing Labor’s two-party-preferred support to 47 per cent.
