The Labor leader addresses a group of swinging voters in the marginal electorate of Petrie in the first Sky News/Courier Mail “people’s forum” of the 2016 federal election season. All the developments,live 11.22am BSTThanks so much for your company this evening for this pop-up edition of Politics Live. It’s been all kinds of fun times.
Let’s part with a summary of tonight’s people’s forum. 10.59am BSTA few thoughts on tonight. That wasn’t a tough town corridor as political town halls go. Shorten had to bring up Labor’s negative gearing policy himself because he didn’t score a question on it.
I consider there was a fair dose of waffle, particularly in the opening few questions. He took a while to sharpen up. It’s always a balance in these things for politicians between answering the specific questions they are asked and getting your pre-determined message out, and I don’t consider Shorten achieved that balance in every question. Mostly he was personably non-specific.
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Source: theguardian.com