Day 25- Just a typo

The ranga and the silver fox get friendly. Via ABC.

Feel that? Those shifting winds? They're subtle, sure, and they swirl, but they do constitute a change. Momentum change. It's not just Gillard's Q&A performance, but that did inspire, so the SMH says, a huge plunge on the betting markets today. It was a solid element to be sure, but it's got to do with the poll numbers too, and the bungled figures of the Libs, and Costello bringing further attention to the totally reasonable attack ad that features his comic dismissal of Abbott's skills with bills. It's in Joe Hockey's high-pitched alarmist tone on the RN breakfast program today, and his almost hysterical throwdown presser after lunch, demanding Wayne Swan man up over the 'leaking' of Treasury figures. The shift is on.

ILL-COMMUNICATION

This is not a photo-composite but a real human face.

Via netalarmed.com

The communications debate at lunch was notable for featuring two of the least likeable figures in politics (Conroy and Smith) against one of the most likeable (the charming but maybe a little useless Scott Ludlam), and by balancing bad with bad. Conroy's filter is deathly stupid. But the Liberal response, a cheaper, slower internets, launched an hour before the debate, is lame.

The botched figures are more interesting- the opposition suggests there's a 3.3billion black hole. Swan counters with a robust deflection. And then Abbott says 'look, there were a couple of typos'. It's claim and counter claim town, but the Libs look worse. Today at least. It's on the breeze.

AND TO CLOSE- A BLOODBATH
There's a few of you, and maybe you're expecting something vastly detailed on the 7:30 Report. Maybe you're hoping for penetrating insight and Wildean wit. I am here to apologise. For all I can say is it was a massacre, pure and simple. Scalp 3 for King Kerry 2010 (meaning, I guess, that this scalp is a de-plugging, an advanced hair removal therapy, as Tony has been done twice by a man who, quite clearly I suspect, does not in any way like Mr Wabbit). It began with broadband and ended with Tone's endorsement of a candidate who dislikes the gay, the jewish and the womanly. And inbetween it was either the most painful 20 minutes of television this side of Undercover Boss, or the most pleasant. Dear god. The wheel has now completely turned.