Why wall-to-wall Labor governments won’t be bad this time
There will be no repeat of the federal-state bickering under Kevin Rudd. The legacy of Scott Morrison is that smart political leaders know that voters are tired of bickering.
During the last days of the 2007 federal election campaign, the Coalition ran ads warning of the danger of wall-to-wall Labor governments. A vote for Kevin Rudd would give Labor unchecked power, and that would be a very dangerous scenario, the Liberals said.
Polling from that period showed the Liberal Party was tapping into legitimate concerns, as a sizeable number of voters were worried that the Labor club would be “bad” for Australia.
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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.
