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...legacy of the profligate Whitlam era (1972-75) and the wild ride of the Hawke-Keating years is that Latham will be forced to eat up much of this campaign pleading the case that Labor can be trusted with managing the money. Howard and Costello can continue spending taxpayer funds - outbidding Labor on health spending or tax cuts - and not carry the stain of profligacy. Appearing as a pale imitation of his former self, Latham signed a low-interest-rate guarantee a few days into the campaign. The stunt reeked of the forlorn Crean years and brought gleeful ridicule from...
...Labor will be especially hard pressed in making a case to the comfortable majority of urbanites that things are crook, that the government has to go, and that only Labor will look after them. Perhaps Latham's toughest job will be getting the most comfortable Australians to believe that his "ladder of opportunity" won't be erected at their expense. Although it's probably too late for people to get their heads around it, Latham's family and tax policy, released on Sept. 7, has many worthwhile features - and several that are hard to fathom. There...
...third as an issue behind education and health. It hadn't been prominent in the news or the national conversation. But it was an issue on which Prime Minister John Howard seemed to have the ascendancy. In June, when asked whether Howard's Liberal-National government or Latham's Labor opposition could better protect the country, 50% of voters polled favored the Coalition and 26% Labor. When he was elected Opposition leader last December, Latham trailed the P.M. on that question 21% to 58%. A few days before the blast, and six months after he promised Labor would withdraw Australian...
...troops still in Iraq hadn't been prominent in Latham's campaign before the blast; now, says pollster Rod Cameron, it's a discussion he'll find impossible to avoid. "The political argument will come back to that: Have you changed your mind about the troops? What about Spain?" Labor has long argued that having troops in Iraq has made Australia more of a target and damaged regional goodwill and cooperation against terrorism. Howard has painted Labor's plan as a cop-out in a necessary war, though his deputy, National Party leader John Anderson, said Australia "could be" more...
...both leaders handle the bombing will be critical, Lebovic says. If both do it well - without appearing to take political advantage of the killings - it could be neutralized as a factor on election day. That still leaves the dilemma for Labor of regaining the public's attention as it tries to sell a swag of new policies, including its tax policy, released two days before the bombing and still a mystery to many voters. As long as this bombing, and national security generally, remains in the foreground, Labor will have a tough job, predicts Cameron. "Latham has a difficult package...