Reality rarely gets a run in an election campaign full of feigned outrage | Greg Jericho

Australian election campaign involves both parties, and much of the media, pretending to be outraged at things either fake or purposely mistaken

The general consensus is that now that Easter and Anzac Day are behind us and with pre-polling starting on Monday, the prologue of the campaign is over and the real one begins.

The campaign has mostly gone as expected, but usually by now there has been some outrage over a person in a campaign advert who is actually an actor. It seems the parties this time round have decided to forego the fake-tradie outrage and have a fake policy outrage instead.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2UMqCoy
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