Comment: Steve Bannon thinks the Aussie election is dull - but is that so bad? l peterhartcherao
Steve Bannon took control of Donald Trump's failing 2016 campaign and turned it around, making a celebrity demagogue the president of the US. Wondering how an Australian federal election might look to a canny unconventional campaigner like Bannon, I thought I'd ask him.
Similarly, Bannon finds "really surprising" the absence of one issue - China. "There should be a really intense debate about this", about China's place in the world and Australia's relations with it. "They are trying to hold the election on national security, and it should be tied to China," he says of the Coalition. Again, for either party to politicise China or, worse, Chinese people, would certainly raise the intensity of the campaign.
The logic of the political system also converges on this point. So far, each party campaigns largely in its "comfort zone", in the partisan playpens defined by the parties' residual brand identites, playing with their safe toys. Then they venture out on raids on each other's playpens and try to smash the other team's toys. In this campaign, the Coalition is doing much more of the attacking so far.
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