November 8, 2007
It's close to crunch time isn't it. if Howard and Costello don't get traction soon, then the best they can do is stare just defiantly at defeat. Imagine what some of the Liberals are thinking now--what its going to be like in Opposition? Who wants to be leader of the Opposition? Which faction is going to be purged? Will it be a decade on the opposition benches? Why bother.
These are late night thoughts. The early daytime thoughts are much simpler--where is the lifeline going to come from?

Alan Moir
The swing is on---amongst the stars in Queensland and South Australia, but returned to earth in New South Wales and Victoria. Queensland looms as the key battleground for this year’s federal election, and that's why the Coalition is looking for a lifeline. They don't have much time to find one as the national polls are suggesting a comfortable win for Labor.
How will the Coalition defend its stronghold in Queensland? This is the state of bedrock conservatism, despite having a Labor state government.
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Gary,
Costello was on Radio National breakfast this morning. His line was that rates have gone up, but that is no need to shift your vote to Labor. The ALP, he said, will put even more pressure on interest rates. The economy, he intoned, is delicately balanced at the moment and Labor is too inexperienced to manage it.
Ho hum.