OPINION: Morrison’s campaign unravels as Labor learns his game
The formula this has led him to is almost aphoristic in its vagueness: he is known while his opponent is unknown.
This type of binary is Morrison’s expertise. Labor has lately learnt to avoid giving Morrison the material he needs to create these binaries, and not always simply by disappearing. Take China: Labor has always struggled to avoid playing into the strong/weak binary Morrison seeks to create. But when the Solomon Islands agreement was revealed, Labor instead came at it obliquely, casting it as a question of relationships with our neighbours.
There is now an agility, too, that was lacking in the early days of Labor’s campaign. Labor did not merely attack on the Solomons issue; it announced policy. Off the back of
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