We are into the second week of the campaign now and things are just starting to reach tepid, after a phoney war in week one. Neither of the major parties, nor their respective leaders, have made major gaffes yet. The policies are safe and uninspiring and aimed at a frugal costing regime, such is the atmosphere of hey, small spender!
Today the Government released a Climate Change non-policy, a disappointing and timid squibb aimed at dressing up the backdown on this issue some months ago. A citizen's assembly comprising at least 100 people will be drawn from the electoral roll! What an abrogation of leadership and good government this is! We voted three years ago to have a climate change policy developed and enacted. Why not just use the Joe Hockey preferred Tweeting consensus? Hey gang, do you think we can come up with a climate policy?
I hope things get better than this. Timid government is not government that's worth having. Leadership is about making some decisions that will be unpopular and difficult to undertake. Labor leaders in the past have managed it. So too, can Ms Gillard.
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