The campaign with built-in R&R for voters
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Politically speaking, the Easter break is a blessing for a jaded electorate, at least a partial rest for voters’ eyes and ears in a campaign that’s started as an impossibly complex jumble of claims and numbers.
For Bill Shorten, Easter might also act as an eraser to rub out people’s memories of a scratchy couple of days in the...