What a stupid day. So close to the end, with rather high stakes, and the story of the day is the debate about the debate. Whatever high ground Gillard had on this seems to have disappeared as she appears to be bouncing back, looking a little haughty. She was a fool to avoid the initial debate request and this is valuable ground she has since lost. Mark Riley on Ch 7 says that it'll lose her the election. Mark Riley has clearly been drinking, but it's a bad look. Bob Brown stepped forward to call it a farce, and he was right.
It's not only the debate providing the dumb- the lead story on the Fairfax news sites is on Gillard's big lie- that she actually used notes for the speech that others had said was off the cuff. She didn't say that herself, but the story has somehow cut through. The evidence? This here photo.
To be fair, the notes were less than exhaustive.
Stupid stupid stuff.
Abbott hits 7:30Reportland for the third and final time and suffers again at the hands of a man who clearly thinks the opposition leader is a fucktard. Nothing too troubling, no huge clangers as per 'gospel truth' or his mis-steps on broadband last week, but he was again uncomfortable, shifty and keen to get out of there. By the end of a very long 20 minutes and by the way he signed off, it was clear that Mr Rabbit thinks little of red Kerry too.
Highlight of the thing was a beautiful piece of timing from la Gillardine, who dropped a press release saying she'll be there tomorrow night to debate, and she'll be happy to appear onstage in the community forum after- after Mr Rabbs. With any luck, that'll be at the end of a more meaningful day than this.
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