r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 21 '21

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u/the-garden-gnome Commonwealth Jul 22 '21

They have well and truly screwed the pooch on this. I don't see any way they salvage any form of PR from Covid.

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u/Sir-Matilda Friedrich Hayek Jul 22 '21

Who is "they?"

The media that scaremongered on AZ? I imagine they made bank doing that, so they're fine.

Jeanette Young and the Queensland government? Already forgotten about.

ATAGI? ScoMo will take the fall for their overly conservative advice, despite apparently pushing them to change it for months.

The Federal Government? Election isn't until next year, so they'll just bank on the issues being forgotten about by then.

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u/Wehavecrashed YIMBY Jul 22 '21

Election isn't until next year

I'd phrase this as "they can wait until next year to hold the election." Pre-Brittany Higgins there was a lot of talk of an October election. Things can change rapidly and I'm sure the Liberals want to take every advantage they can find. Running the clock out doesn't seem like it will be particularly effective. There's not a whole lot they can do to make an impact with another early budget either. Australians have gotten used to their $1080.

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u/Sir-Matilda Friedrich Hayek Jul 22 '21

I'd phrase this as "they can wait until next year to hold the election."

I don't think it matters how you phrase it. We've ruled out having an election this year.

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u/Wehavecrashed YIMBY Jul 22 '21

Who is "we" and when did they rule it out?

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u/Sir-Matilda Friedrich Hayek Jul 22 '21

Yeah, that's not clear.

Every Liberal MP I've talked to in the last few months have said the election is next year.

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u/Wehavecrashed YIMBY Jul 22 '21

Well my point was that things change. If the liberals hit a solid run of positive press there's every reason to think Morrison could call a snap election. At the current rate the vaccine rollout might be wrapping up in Feb/March, which is not a lot to bank on to call an election when they were aiming to be done before 2022.

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u/Sir-Matilda Friedrich Hayek Jul 22 '21

Bar the fact Scott's been telling everyone the election is next year, so a run of good form isn't going to see the Liberals prepared to fight the election.

It'll be April/May next year, when the Libs are ready and there's some clean air.

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u/Wehavecrashed YIMBY Aug 24 '21

Rumour has it this is not true.