July 2 is going to be a long time coming if the first few days are any indication.

Today a main election news item on ABC radio was still whether Shorten would take us back to the polls rather than do a deal with the Greens.

Turnbull ran into trouble in Sydney’s west when all the press was interested in was who Fiona Scott, member for Lindsay, voted for in the Liberal Party leadership spill. Turnbull cancelled the rest of the day’s campaigning, as well he might if showing up is only going to feed the media’s obsession with irrelevance that is damaging to his campaign. Continue reading Please can we have policy rather than politics? →