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devastation were on ce being bandied about, now it see ms to be a much closer contest.

Come September is a l 96 l romantic comedy fi.lm s tarring Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida.

The local version at the moment is a comic, ho -hum election movie starring Kevi n "selfie" Rudd and Ton y "acrion man" Abbott. There seem to be no romantic leads and yes, there is no l ove in the air between the two major scars. In fact, spite and vitr io l often sur face between the two. While the critics have awarded the gong of "Best (better?) Actor" co the Coalition leader Tony Abbott, d1e People's Choice Award category is stilJ seeing Labor's Kev.in Rudd as the forerunner

With the election campaign officially on d1e other side of the halfway mark, the Liberal-Natio nal alliance seems t o be al1ead in the polls. The expe r ts at this stage are calling it an election for Ton y Abbott to lose. That th.is is the anal ysis shows how well Kevin Rudd has changed me eguation after replacing J ulia Gillard. \X! hi le terms such as annihilation and

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An interesting side -show in cbis election campaign is the open hostility bet\,,een the News Ltd media and d1e Labor Parry While the Labor Party tried to muzzle the pre ss under former communications minister Stephen Conroy and failed, it seems d,ar I ews Ltd is enjoying their potshots at the ALP through rne ir tablo id Dail y Te legraph.

''Throw this mob o ut" screamed d1e headlines as me elections were announced PM Rudd has been open])' critical in his opinion of News Ltd ; it will be interesting to see the kind of revenge he will seek should he be remrned to power. As Julia Gillard found out, Kevin Rudd neither forgets nor forgives!

At the same ti m e, if ALP loses d1e elections, it will be interesting to see what happens co one K. Rudd. If tbe Coalition were to lose, it is clear diat Ton y Abbott wiJI be d1e fall guy and there will be a shoot-our between Malcolm Turnbull a nd Joe Hockey for l eader. U nder me Labor Party, tbe Lines are not so clear. If Kev in Rudd i s forced out, who will replace him? The strong union leader turned politician Bill Shorten at the helm will further bind d1e party to the union movement, the very image d1ey are tryi n g to d1ange. There are few chai:ismatic leaders i n the Labor camp wid1 a number of them electing to bow out, and so it will be an interesting conundrum for me ALP. But cometh d1e hour, cometh the man (or woman) and perhaps a new face leading the parry post elections is ju st the tonic required co rebuild

Having said that, whichever mob comes in next will have to sore our d1e financial mess th.at the Wayne Swan -Chris Bo\ven terun leaves behind. It is a bit rich for the ALP to pressure the Coalition to reveal their costings, when even with the foll might of the Treasury, they did not gee a single nwnber rig ht in their budgets. With the mining tax turning out co be one of d1e worse government deals ever negotiated wid1 the private seccor, and total disconnect between ove rall earnings and expe ndirure, the Labor Party has racked up huge amounts o f debt in their six years in government. Someone need s to pay ic back One expects this will be our furure generations. W/e may have escaped the global financial crisis, but unless the rig ht measures are put in place, one only bas to see the state of so me European economies co under stand the crises which can unfold.

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