ElectionWell, 127 days until the 14 September electionAnd prepare yourselves for the Government political advertising campaign from HellThe Gillard Government would have you have you believe this election will be a contest of policies and ideasThe reality is it will be an orgy of nauseating spin and marketing rhetoricThis Government has taken political marketing to new levels because it knows, as one pundit says, that its politicians “couldn’t sell dope to a hippie”$50 million – which we cannot afford – will be spent plugging the $14.5 billion Gonski spending package$25 million has already been spent spruiking the NBNAnd $500,000 has been spent just preparing the ground for an “Aussie jobs first” campaign which will reinforce the Government’s 457 visa dogwhistlingThe phoniness and offensiveness of this is almost as breathtaking as the expenseThe Government emailed Gonski campaign material – containing 2 “options” - to all caucus members on 23 April to “assist you in discussing these reforms with your community”Option A featured a “non-Caucasian” Asian girl to be used in their “say yes to better schools” promotionsOption B – the “Caucasian option” - featured a fair-skinned, blond boyDo taxpayers really have to fund this offensive nonsense?Where is this Independent Communications Committee which supposedly vets taxpayer-funded Government advertising?Paul Keating once said that when you run out of ideas all you have left is spinI am not sure this Government ever had anything else

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