Come September (7th)

clevascacio n were on ce being bandied about, now it s eems to be a much close r contes t.

Come Septem ber is a l 96 l romantic comed y film s tarring Rock Huds o n a n d Gi na Lollobrigida.

The local v ersion at the moment is a comic, ho-hum election movie s tarring Kev in " selfie" Rudd and Ton y "action man" Abbott. There seem to be no romantic leads a nd yes, there is no l ove in the air between the two major scars. In fact, spite and vitr io l o ften s urface between the two. While the critics have awarded the go ng of "Best (better?)

Acco r " co the Coalition leader Tony Abbott, d1e People's Choice Award category is still seeing Labor's Kev.in Rudd as the forerunner

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

An interesting side -show in chis elecciou campaign is the open hostility bet\,,een the News Ltd media a nd d1e Labor Party While the Labor Party tried to muzzle the pre ss und er former communications minister Stephen Conroy and failed, it seems d,ac I ews Ltd is enjoying their potshots a t the ALP through rne ir tablo id Dail y Te legraph ''Throw thi s 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 b e interescing to see the kind of revenge he will seek should he be remrned to power. As Julia Gillard found out, Kevin Rudd ne ither forgets nor forgi ves!

At the same ci m e , if ALP loses d1e eleccions, it will be interes ci ng to see what happens co one K. Rudd. If tbe Coali ci on were to lose, it is clear drnt Ton y Abbott will be d1e fall g uy and there will b e a sho o t-our between Malco lm Turnbull a nd Joe H o cke y for l eader. U nder me Labor Party, tbe li nes are not so clear. If Kev in Rudel i s forced ou t, who will replace him? The strong union leader turned p o licician 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:ismacic leaders i n the Labor camp wi d1 a number of them electing to bow o u t, and so it wiU be an interesting co nu ndrum fo r me ALP. But co meth d1e hour, cometh the man (or wo man) and perh aps a new face leading the parry post elections is ju st the tonic required co rebuild

Having said that, whic11ev er mo b comes in nex t will have to sore our d1e financi al mess th.at tbe Wayne Swan -Chris Bo\ven terun leaves beh ind. It is a bit rich for t he ALP to pressure the Coalitio n to reveal their costings, when ev en with the foll might of the Treasury, they did not gee a sin gle nwnber rig ht in thei r bu dgets Wit h the mining tax turning our co be one of d1e wors e government deals ever negotiated wid1 the private sector, and total disconnect between ove rall earnings and expe ndirure, the Labor Party has racked u p hu g e amounts o f debt in t h eir six years in g overnment. Someone need s to pay it back One expects this w ill be our furure gene racions. W / e may have escaped the gl o bal financ ial crisis, but unles s the rig ht measures are put in place, one only bas to see the state of some European economies co under stand the cri ses which ca n unfold.

Pawan Luthra is the current Parliament of NSW Multicultural Journalist of the Year.

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