Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gave a passing attempt at it earlier in the campaign over asylum seekers and negative gearing, but he’s been put well in the shade by a cracking scare campaign over Medicare from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, ensuring us that as soon as our back is turned on this Malcolm fella, all Federal Government subsidisation of healthcare will be gone in a trice. None of that positive rubbish anymore, now we are in the real campaign.
This campaign has seen some truly awful advertising from all sides, but Bob Katter brushed away the relevance deprivation syndrome he may have been feeling for the last three years by outdoing everyone, even Donald Trump, with some choice jokes following the Orlando shootings.
Innovation Minister Christopher Pyne was the only other significant mover into the top ten as he hoed into Nick Xenophon as both parties get more and more worried about his strength in South Australia and defended the NBN from pretty consistent punter attacks throughout this election – in fact it is the biggest single issue of discontent, not just number one on social media, but in the top five on talkback as well.
Tanya Plibersek got stuck in to her local third party problem, the Greens, claiming they have ‘dangerous ideologies’ as well as getting a bump from the Foreign Affairs debate with Julie Bishop.
Crikey Political Index: June 16-22
On social media, the two leaders are starting to put a bigger gap between them and the rest, as the campaign enters the properly negative final two weeks.
Social Media Top Five
Talkback is also picking up across the country, and some of them were rolling in the aisles at Bob’s jackanapes with a gun.
Talkback Top Five
Nowhere in Australia builds pedestals for local heroes quite like Melbourne does, and once they’re up there, it seems a few of them think they are pretty much immune.
Comparison of media mentions
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