What Coalition?
18 January
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The Leader of the Liberals is asked whether his “position statements” are “policies.” Like everyone else, he’s confused and declines to comment.
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The Leader of the Nationals says he prefers “position statements” because “we don’t want to lock ourselves in.”
19 January
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The Leader of the Liberals writes to his colleagues: “These refined position statements are the commitments we take into the election. … [T]hey are the basis of our policy platform and are binding on coalition.”
23 January
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The election is called.
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The commitments the Leader of the Liberals says the Coalition will take into the election disappear from the Liberal website: “This page of the website will list policy documents as they are released during the election campaign.”
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The Leader of the Nationals refuses to be bound by Coalition policy.
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“Liberal-National Coalition Position Statements” remain on the Nationals website.
What the heck is going on? The Liberals want to be bound, but remove the policies from their website. The Nationals don’t want to be bound, but leave them up!
Good to see the Coalition is working as a harmonious team…
(Thanks, Frank.)
A Message For Max: People In Glass Houses etc :-)
http://www.waliberals.net/walibs/news_view.aspx?L=180
Labor sanitizes the website…
[Text removed for space. If you want to read the full hypocritical release, click the link above. —RC.]