Kate Hawkesby: The whole lead-up to the election so far feels a bit low rent

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 3, 2023 · 3m

So a weekend chocka of political campaigning as the parties hit the ground running in the lead-up to the election.

I don’t know about you but I’m finding the whole lead-up so far a bit low rent. As in, a lot of gutter politics, name-calling, misinformation tactics, and a lot of needless disruption and chaos. And I reckon that puts voters off, so I’m not sure why political parties do it.

It has the opposite effect of engaging people, I think what it does is make people think they’re all a bunch of clowns and they don’t want to vote for any of them.

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