The devastating poll for Labor on day 13 came from the Australian Financial Review, which looks at eight of the nations’ most marginal electorates, showing Labor will struggle to take any seats off the Coalition on September 7 to offset its own expected losses.
Tony Abbott announcing $1.3bn funding for Perth roads, with Ken Wyatt #YouDecide9 pic.twitter.com/ntcixjOLX6
— John O’Doherty (@john_odoherty) August 17, 2013
Labor policy announcement
- Kevin Rudd was in Adelaide, where he announced a $500 million boost for the vehicle industry in Australia.
Coalition policy announcement
- Tony Abbott was in WA, where promised to match government funding for the Perth Gateway project while also pledging $615 million for the Swan Valley bypass.
- Abbott also announced that an elected Coalition government would contribute $45 million for the Generation One scheme, which is designed to help train and employ Indigenous Australians.
Must read
Deborah Snow’s fantastic piece which profiles Kevin Rudd in The Age‘s Insight section.
Quote of the day
.@KRuddMP:“We’re the mob who build up. They’re the mob that cut down.” Watch Kevin’s call to arms at LaborHQ: http://t.co/JqiBOEpubj #AusPol
— Australian Labor (@AustralianLabor) August 17, 2013
Today we turned to the Labor party for our Quote of the Day, and Prime MInister Kevin Rudd’s “we build up…they cut down remarks.”
Admittedly, such rhetoric is part and parcel with any sort of political campaign, but KRudd’s remarks had us harkening back to a famed Kane/Kodos scene in The Simpsons.
Copyright means we can’t post the video here, but be sure to trawl around the depths of YouTube for yourself.
In the meantime, Rudd will continue twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Tweet of the day
"Notwithstanding the dramatic increases in man-made CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world’s warming has stopped." Tony Abbott, 2009
— Bernard Keane (@BernardKeane) August 17, 2013
We’ve changed our rules again slightly, but it didn’t seem right to be almost two weeks into the campaign without featuring Crikey’s resident King of Snark, Bernard Keane.
In the above tweet, he points out a misstep made by Tony Abbott back in 2009.
Ah, the golden age of social media, when every stumbling, bumbling remark is recorded and retweeted by the masses.
Slip of the day
After a gaffe filled week, we decided to spare the pollies today. Some seemed in desperate need of a day off.
Wrap by Liam Quinn and Erdem Koç. Follow them and send them tips on Twitter – @Quinn_LP and@erdemkoc.
