It is not so much that there are more lies – it is that politicians care less about being called out for lying
Six months ago I was sure this election campaign was going to be a vile mass of racism and lies. The Victorian election campaign had set the template. Add in the fight over the medevac bill with the prime minister’s Donald Trumpesque line that this would see the imminent arrival of murderers, paedophiles and rapists, and it all seemed set for a terrible campaign.
The horrific events in Christchurch, however, appear to have put a significant halt to those lines. No one wants to be accused of saying things that would not be out of place in a racist mass murderer’s manifesto. So with luck this campaign won’t be a mass of racism and lies.
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