| Contest: AFTER three weeks of hectic politicking dominated by a "gender war", the Gillard government has picked up voter support at the expense of the Coalition, putting the main parties dead even on a two-party-preferred basis. Labor's primary vote rose from 33 per cent to 36 per cent over the past three weeks, while the Coalition's support fell from 45 per cent to 41 per cent. Based on preference flows at the last election, Labor and the Coalition are locked at 50-50. Spin: "This is no rogue poll," a Labor insider said. Counterspin: "Between now and election day it will become clear Julia Gillard has no answers on the issues families care about," a Coalition strategist said. Dennis Shanahan writes: JULIA Gillard is safe from Kevin Rudd for the moment and Labor is on track to be truly "competitive" by Christmas. Asia century: JULIA Gillard's Asia white paper has challenged Australia to recapture the productivity gains of the 1990s, to achieve its ambitious goals of lifting the nation's living standards into the world's top 10 and fully gain the benefits of an explosion in the size of the Asian middle class by 2025. The white paper sets a series of ambitious goals, including giving every school student the chance for continuous study of an Asian language. Paul Kelly writes: THE Asia white paper contains some of the most ambitious benchmarks in Australia's history but the risk is obvious: that the policy framework will fall short of their delivery. Greg Sheridan writes: THE G | 
Labor claws back support
No comments:
Post a Comment