Uninteresting, lack-lustre election campaign

I cannot remember a less interesting, lack-lustre election campaign than the one that we are currently suffering.

Both sides are obviously being stage-managed and manipulated by media experts and back room strategists who are collectively urging caution and the use of short sharp media grabs instead of detailed explanations of what each side stands for and aspires to.

I find both parties less than inspiring but cannot imagine voters opting for another three years of the chaotic and wasteful form of government we have suffered over the last six years.

Mr Rudd and his team are greatly handicapped in that they cannot refer to their individual or party's history in government as to do so invites people to remember and reflect upon the horrendous and hugely costly mistakes that have been made and may cause some to remember Julia Gillard, who now seems to have been air brushed from history.

This is not an election that the Coalition will win so much as an election that the government will surely and deservedly lose

Email, 23 Aug 2013

Vic Jefferies, St Huberts Island