http://hurrysavethemurray.com/2010/01/3-january-2010-what-price-advice/ Calling All Australians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:50:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://hurrysavethemurray.com/2010/01/3-january-2010-what-price-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-708 michael kerrigan Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:58:43 +0000 http://hurrysavethemurray.com/?p=1154#comment-708 It is clearly a strategic "leak" from the government, designed to (a) deflect anger away from the government onto Dean Brown i.e. get the media to "shoot the messenger" (b) try to smear the opposition - guilt by association (afterall he is an ex liberal premier)(c) make anything but the parlous state of the river and lower lakes the issue in the lead up to the state election 3 months from now, Rann and Co know that water is a major vote loser, so you need to get the plebs to "look over there". Folks this is modern politics 101 at play. so lets not get dragged into this sideshow, Dean Brown is not the issue, Rann Maywald et al are. It is clearly a strategic “leak” from the government, designed to (a) deflect anger away from the government onto Dean Brown i.e. get the media to “shoot the messenger” (b) try to smear the opposition - guilt by association (afterall he is an ex liberal premier)(c) make anything but the parlous state of the river and lower lakes the issue in the lead up to the state election 3 months from now, Rann and Co know that water is a major vote loser, so you need to get the plebs to “look over there”. Folks this is modern politics 101 at play. so lets not get dragged into this sideshow, Dean Brown is not the issue, Rann Maywald et al are.

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