'Voters can pick a phoney': The downside of Morrison's campaign discipline

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With everything at stake for the Coalition, Morrison can’t afford a bad off-hand remark or photo. |OPINION

There were legislative highs, like the legalisation of same-sex marriage, and political lows like the Barnababy scandal.

Morrison also turned in a disciplined performance at his campaign opening press conference. Using the prime minister's courtyard, Aussie flags and all, as his backdrop, Morrison didn’t take the press gallery’s bait to tickle up Shorten, which is new for him, and disappointing for conservative commentators.Credit:It’s a balancing act, this discipline thing. With everything at stake for the Coalition, Morrison can’t afford a bad off-hand remark or photo, let alone a bad day.

In the past, it has been standard operating procedure for oppositions to hold their policy agendas close to their chests when a government is not performing so well. The Napoleon quote comes to mind: never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.But to Labor’s credit, it has a raft of policy details out there, and on policies that have upset some sections of the community.

 

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Time to go scomo as I believe you to give with one hand and take with the other

Yep ALP AND GREENS.

I know the media need to make the LNP sound competitive in this campaign to keep readers clicking but the public know it's going to be a wipe out and Labor will win.

Like not using English but Chinese to greet an Asian women only to discover she was Korean.

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