Deceiving Electors
Herald Sun Sunday, August 22, 2004
Labor is ranting about the 'children overboard' affair - on the grounds that an election won on a lie is an election stolen. But the loudest protester is also the greatest offender.
It is hard for Joe Citizen to know what Howard personally believed about children in the water. But overboard or not, this would not affect my vote. Would it affect anybody's?
Now shift the spotlight. What was Labor saying to the electors during that election - and this one? That private schools get more government money than children is state schools. Now that would make me change my vote. But it is a lie. If uncorrected, it will gain fraudulently turn many voters.
Philip O'Carroll