Day 26: While Scott Morrison was hailing the ‘quiet Australians’ in Cowper, the backlash continued against News Corp’s attack on Bill Shorten
Before we get to Thursday, a bit of whimsy about the current election. The electorate of Eden-Monaro, adjacent to Canberra, used to be the bellwether seat. Once upon a time, not that long ago, we would all spend as much time covering the leaders bustling in and out of Eden-Monaro as we would sprinting up and down the Queensland coast. But this time, crickets. No love from the leaders. You can hear a pin drop from Queanbeyan to Eden. The bellwether action in 2019 – if in fact the bellwether conceit holds in an election likely to produce different swings in different parts of the country – has moved north-east, to the seat of Gilmore.
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