This election is a vacuum of ideas. That’s bad news for Labor

In the 30 years that I’ve lived in Australia the federal Labor Party has only won an election from opposition once, back in 2007.

But it’s worth considering the parallels between this campaign and the campaign between John Howard and Kevin Rudd. In both instances Labor was and is competing against a government that had been in power for about a decade and failed to articulate a cohesive vision for the future of the country. In both instances Labor was and is relatively united behind a leader who has significant authority to shape the nature of the campaign and Labor’s policy platform.

Don’t get me wrong, Rudd was no socialist firebrand. On the contrary, he portrayed himself as a fiscal conservative who would maintain a steady-as-she-goes approach on big economic questions. But he did deftly identify big social and political fault lines that had emerged across the country and devised policies to exploit them.

Despite stagnating wage growth and an increase in more precarious casual and contract work, industrial relations has barely featured in this campaign. When it comes to helping those who are unemployed both Labor and the Coalition are on a unity ticket to keep the JobSeeker rate at its current level, with Labor even abandoning its lukewarm proposal of a review., and both support the opening of new coal and gas mines.

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RW owned media who barely cover anything parties other than the LNP say other than stupid “Gotcha” moments but never scrutinise the LNP claiming this is a vacuum of ideas is almost peak bias.

No for Labor

Its better if the liberals don't have ideas.

Vacuous clickbait from a bloke with no idea

Any more contributions from the Greens ?

Absolutely

All promises, no delivery: Scotty from Marketing. Running away from Fire and flood victims are some of the lowest points that anyone can do in their career.

SMH how about you tell me one ‘idea’ or even better one sound ‘policy’ this LNP government has actually delivered?….FFS.

Oz F is a joke.

Do the opposite of whatever Osman says would generally be solid policy

The only thing that really matters in the absence of any ideas is getting rid of ScottMorrisonMP ScomoMustGo

It’s hard for AlboMP to have ideas when he is battling memory loss. auspol

Maybe we just know what needs to be done after nine years of incompetence and grift 🤷🏻‍♂️

Morrison has on idea LNPMassiveFail Conservative journalists are a waste of space ThisisNotJournalism

Scott has ideas, he just lies about them LNPMassiveFail NeverTrustMorrison

Yawn

All I get from that headline is 'Labor need ideas because we hold them to a higher standard than the Liberal Party'

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