Campaign Day 32

Watched Labor's campaign launch yesterday. You little ripper, Kev! The difference between Labor and the Coalition couldn't have been better expressed. Howard offered nothing but money. Labor offered some hope for the future.

Punters go for Labor after Rudd's campaign launch

MEDIA RELEASE NOVEMBER 14

PUNTERS LAUNCH INTO LABOR

Election betting agency Lasseters Sportsbook reports heavy support for the Kevin Rudd-led Labor

party following today's official election campaign launch in Brisbane, ahead of the November 24 poll.

Over the past week one punter has invested nearly $30,000 on the ALP in a sprinkling of individual

seats around the country including Bowman (QLD), Herbert (QLD), Longman (QLD) and Stirling (WA).

Labor's Jason Young has shortened in Bowman to $1.70 (from $2.10), George Colbran is into $1.65 (from $2.00) to win Herbert and Jon Sullivan's price has been slashed in Longman ($4.00 into $2.30).

The betting on individual seats has been reflected in the overall market with Labor's price cut to $1.30 (from $1.35) over the past 24 hours, and the Coalition's price has blown out to $3.50 (from $3.25).

 

"This push for Labor has been the strongest indication yet a change in government could become a reality," says Gerard Daffy from Lasseters. "It'll be very hard for the Coalition to win from here."

Lasseters Sportsbook earlier today took the unusual step of closing the market on the seat of

Wentworth after the legitimacy of George Newhouse's ALP candidacy was brought into question.

 

Australian Federal Election             Seat of Bowman (QLD)      

$1.30 Labor (Kevin Rudd)            $1.70 Jason Young (ALP)  

3.50 Coalition (John Howard)        $2.00 Andrew Laming (LIB) 

 

Seat of Herbert (QLD)                       Seat of Longman (QLD)           

$1.65 George Colbran (ALP)         $1.55 Mal Brough (LIB)   

$2.10 Peter Lindsay (LIB)             $2.30 Jon Sullivan (ALP)     

 

Seat of Hasluck (WA)                  Seat of Stirling (WA)                                  

$1.50 Sharryn Jackson (ALP)        $1.72 Michael Keenan (LIB)

$2.40 Stuart Henry (LIB)              $2.00 Peter Tinley (ALP)

 

Seat of Robertson (NSW)                 Seat of Eden-Monaro (NSW)                                                

$1.80 Belinda Neal (ALP)              $1.25 Mike Kelly (ALP)

$1.90 Jim Lloyd (LIB)                   $3.50 Gary Nairn (LIB)  

 

Seat of Bennelong (NSW)             Seat of Page (NSW) 

$1.45 John Howard (LIB)              $1.85 Chris Gulaptis (NP)

$2.60 Maxine McKew (ALP)           $1.85 Janelle Safin (ALP) 

 

Seat of Corangamite (VIC)           La Trobe (VIC)

$1.75 Stewart McArthur (LIB)         $1.65 Rodney Cocks (ALP)

$1.95 Darren Cheeseman (ALP)    $2.10 Jason Wood (LIB)

 

Seat of Deakin (VIC)                         Seat of McMillan (VIC)   

$1.80 Phillip Barresi (LIB)             $1.80 Russell Broadbent (LIB)

$1.90 Mike Symon (ALP)              $1.90 Christine Maxfield (ALP) 

 

Seat of Solomon (NT)

$1.65 Damian Hale (ALP)

$2.10 Dave Tollner (LIB)

In 2007 Rudd needs to remember the Coalition's 'black op' past

It is to be hoped that Kevin Rudd displays true fiscal responsibility in Labor's federal election campaign launch today.

 

The Coalition has endorsed Howard's rash billions bag of election promises in the hope that Labor can be forced into a similar election promise overspend. That way the Coalition in Opposition will have a ready-made stick with which to beat Labor if Rudd gains government on 24 November.

 

Past experience has shown that Howard & Co. will be extremely bitter if they lose.

The last time they were so bitter Liberals, Nationals and certain private sector individuals held an emergency meeting the day after the election which brought the Whitlam Government to power.

 

A day after that particular meeting Coalition MPs were boasting in the Australian Club in Sydney that big business was going to help them get rid of Whitlam within twelve months.

 

It of course took the Coalition longer than that to destabilise the national economy and drive Australia into a panic. However they were eventually successful.

Senior officers in the Army with a nod and a wink from at least one general went so far as to formulate a plan to take over essential services if civil unrest broke out, and the Navy consulted constitutional lawyers about its oath and decided to lay its ships one mile off the coast and only take orders from Buckingham Palace if law and order broke down.

 

A month out from The Dismissal a very senior Coalition member was again boasting in the same gentlemen's club that they had found a 'legal' way to get rid of Whitlam.

 

John Howard was a Coalition MP during this entire period. If he loses government it is likely that he will encourage both the Libs and Nats to revisit these tactics. With Howard it will always be b*gger the country, I want it all my own way.

Rude Rupert

For someone who declared, "I have no views on (Australian) politics at all", (and rightly so, because he's a US citizen) Rupert ("Muddy Waters") Murdoch was not exactly reluctant when it came to expressing HIS views about OUR tax system, OUR troops in Iraq, OUR broadband, OUR industrial relations and OUR media laws.

Muddy Waters Murdoch reckons that giving money back (for things like tax cuts, higher utility allowances to pensioners and money for education) is sapping the Aussie spirit. He would say that, wouldn't he?

Read more about where Murdock sits in relation to events associated with Australia at
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22753352-1702,00.html