Opinion: Fearing the worst: Campaign ads point to mood shift in the lucky country
Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison.. In other words, the past three years have conditioned us to expect disaster, an interesting perspective shift for the lucky country. The Liberal line is more interesting still, because of the questions it provokes: “When Australia needs certainty.” Is this true – that we need certainty? Or, to put this another way, do we need certainty now more than at other times? Surely, if certainty is a good thing, we need it equally at all times.
There was a problem, though – who cares about a campaign’s second week? Then he caught COVID, which seemed like further disaster – and yet there is a chance it will provide the shift that Labor needs. There will be refreshed interest in Albanese’s return to the trail, and it will come close enough to the end that this might matter. This is not the campaign he wanted. It may yet be disastrous. But the Albanese of the first two days was not heading to victory either.
. Meanwhile, Albanese rests his warnings about Morrison on the likelihood of further disasters heading our way; but at the same time bases his campaign around a message of strong optimism.To be fair to both men, in a nuanced, complex world it is possible that all this can be true. But these two men don’t live in that world now – they inhabit the campaign. They are not concerned with accuracy, but telling us what they think we want to hear.
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