Click on the image at the bottom of the post and you will see an updated account of the electorates visited by the leaders during the campaign, more or less (there is an element of subjectivity as to what constitutes a visit). One of the salient points to emerge is the rather intensive focus on Tasmania, which remarkably played host to both leaders yesterday. Scott Morrison has spent three days over two visits – exactly equal to his record for Victoria, where he has targeted the five Liberal-held seats on margins of up to 6.4%, but not wasted effort on Dunkley, which is Liberal-held but notionally Labor. Bill Shorten’s visit to the state was likewise his second, but so far he’s spent two days in the state to Morrison’s three.
Western Australia also logged up some points this week, but this is largely due to the debate having been held there on Monday, and the practicality of hanging around afterwards given the distance involved. Nonetheless, it is notable that Morrison spent fully three days campaigning their compared with Shorten’s two, and that Morrison felt it worth his while to conduct a street walk in the electorate of Canning, situated well up the pendulum at 6.8%.
Bill Shorten is overdue for a visit to New South Wales, where he hasn’t been since he spent the first three full days of the campaign in Sydney. Nonetheless, the prize for the most targeted seat of the campaign so far would appear to be the Sydney seat of Reid, which has been visited three times by Scott Morrison, most recently on Sunday, and was also visited by Shorten on each of his three days in Sydney.
And while you’re about, note also the other new post below this one: episode three of Seat du Jour, covering the Melbourne seat of La Trobe.
Scomo blah blah blah spending on schools is important.No shit sherlock.
Scotty wants a great teacher over a school hall
Zinger
This debate is forcing Morrison to talk about policy.
Gotta be a good thing.
Well judging by some of the tweets from #Peoplesforum Bill is winning over the undecided….
https://twitter.com/cupoftay_/status/1124238554215796736?s=21
But ScoMo puts EVERYTHING in terms of business investment.
Bill talking about his mum who was a teacher for 35 years – now onto special needs, spend more on education
ScaMo trying to bustle his way through the education question with a blizzard of numbers.
Aust Post operating as a bank would be very popular with people. Bring back a Commonwealth Bank.
scott
There is a bloke behind the audience who looks like putin
That’s what you call trying to influence another country’s election!
Shorten has nailed education Scomo started talking over .
Scotty now into metoo on spending more on education
Bill fighting on his own ground
Does anyone know if this will be on that free-to-air “Win Sky News” which is broadcast to regional areas. If so, it sounds like they may cut the feed if it keeps going the way it sounds it’s going.
People tweeting about a political debate broadcast on Sky News on a Friday night aren’t undecided.
Q7. Retired person on Budget surplus
Re the English local elections and the general reading of the entrails on what it means for Brexit: I wouldn’t read too much into it at all. Turnout it about 35%, which is both dire and,more importantly, shedload less than the 68% turnout for the last General election.
Speers trying to shut them down -descending into rabble
“Will the surpluses be bigger?”
What a stupid question.
BB
This debate is forcing Morrison to talk about policy.
Gotta be a good thing.
Yep – Morrison flounders because they have pretty much presented zero policy for the next term, and most of his senior ministers have been hiding in the Bunker for the whole campaign.
I believe the Post Office was a major repository for savings in Japan, can anyone concur?
Scotty only has tax in his arsenal, nothing else
The ScoMo Wall Of Sound.
I have just tuned into the people’s forum. What a farce. Scotty talking a mile a minute and talking over everyone else, including the moderator!
What was on that paper?
“Does anyone know if this will be on that free-to-air “Win Sky News” which is broadcast to regional areas.”
Yeah it is being simulcast on both the versions of Sky.
Scomo has lost it…People are laughing.
Speers: Do you agree, Mr Morrison, that a lot of these benefits are going to higher income earners?’
Morrison: ‘No I don’t.’
!!!
That’s a flat-out lie.
What did Bill write on the paper?
Scotty is in the ropes.
Scrott getting laughter. Nae think it is ‘with’ him 🙂
Bill writes down $77b on a piece of paper and holds it up!
Now saying the top3% gets all,the tax breaks. Scotty cloundering
ScoMo floundering. Talking in tongues.
Zinger!!!
Talking facts now, Bill killing it.
Spence @ #908 Friday, May 3rd, 2019 – 5:11 pm
Exactly. It would win votes across the spectrum – from far right to far left, and all points in between.
Zinger! ScoMo the Space Invader.
Love the space invader comment. Talk about a Latham handshake.
Dee Madigan
Verified account @deemadigan
2m2 minutes ago
Shorten: Its not a tax to stop giving wealthy people money #PeoplesForum
Confessions @ #920 Friday, May 3rd, 2019 – 7:16 pm
Scott Morrison’s lie?
Bill says ‘you’re a classic space invader’ cause Scotty keeps on walking in front of him
Back in your box. Bill is laughing
You are a classic space invader. Bill to scott,
bill: ‘abit of humour never hurt a debate’
Scomo about to go the biff. He’s getting slaughtered
Just saw Shorten and the ‘this money doesn’t grow on trees’.
Glad to see Labor sharpening their lines on this – when more people understand what their hard-earned taxes are going to (a nice yacht?), they may be less likely to fall for Morrison and Frydenberg’s lies.
Morrison just had his Latham handshake moment
Scotty has a magic pudding approach to the budget.
This is like a cat playing with a half dead mouse
Speers is good. Coming back to the $77b, Scotty going into Shouty McShoutFace mode
Still talking gibberish. Let him rave on Bill.
Firefox – I am glad – hope that our very anti-Labor relatives are watching!
What about people who have money going through their fingers and cannot maintain any in their hands?
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2m2 minutes ago
“You’re a classic space invader”
Bill Shorten on ScoMo debate tango