No real suprises, I mean we've stuck to strategies since the campaign began, trying not just simply to run on what is a very bad proposal from our opponents in the GST but also starting to address the entire agenda of a nation, and we're sort of getting through it. To an extent you're introducing yourself to the public for the first time and the polls are going okay. I think it's important for people not only to like you but to have a view that you can actually do something, that you can actually deliver. I placed great stress on credibility in this campaign. It's not enough to like somebody, you've got to believe that that person is actually going to do what he says.
Election campaigns are also about setting the agenda, creating the issue for the day.
Today the Howard camp had some success in that regard, creating suspicion about an Evatt Foundation report, written in part by former Reserve Bank chairman Bernie Fraser. The Evatt Report, or at least the issue, may not amount to much, but it does serve to remind the electorate of the actions of the previous Keating Government, and that remains the Liberals' best defence against the Beazley charm.