Billboards are bobbing up around Kooyong desperately imploring voters to “Keep Josh”, and we are only at the mid-point of the 2022 election campaign. Thanks Scott Morrison.
Meanwhile Labor has sallied forth with its solution to the housing crisis, government buying a share in peoples’ homes. This despite both parties ignoring, for decades and still now: negative gearing, SMF lurks, a 15-year delay implementing money-laundering reforms, capital gains relief and other incentives for property developers.
And talking about the latter, Rupert Murdoch’s front pages this weekend are splashing with dubious numbers in a report by government consultants and donors EY, commissioned by property lobby Master Builders, claiming that cutting red tape – that is, abolishing the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) – will cost us $50bn.
How good is a six-week election campaign!
Yesterday Josh Frydenberg offensively said his opponent , Dr Monique Ryan is “no more than a slogan or a billboard”.
It wasn’t funny.
Today, with no Liberal branding , Josh has made himself the slogan on the billboard.
Now that’s funny 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂#auspol pic.twitter.com/tcbIQdsEpu
— Julia Banks (@juliahbanks) April 30, 2022
Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.