For the second time in a dozen years a Coalition government is, according to the polls, facing electoral defeat, easily characterised as “stubborn” and “prejudiced” on key policy issues, a team of (mostly) men of the past, lacking a vision or the policies to back it up.
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| Where is the contest of ideas? Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten. |
It was American statesman and diplomat Adlai Stevenson who remarked in a 1963 address to the UN that “ignorance is stubborn, and prejudice dies hard”. He could well have been describing the Coalition.
Read the opinion piece from The Age by John Hewson - “Far from a contest of ideas, this campaign withers to irrelevance."
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