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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S political strategy of regularly moving from one theme to another, one set of proposed changes and reforms to another, has earned it many dividends. It has kept the initiative, by acting; the Opposition has merely reacted; and so Howard and his men set the agenda yet again. Continued long enough, this process writes the script for the next election and convinces the electorate that that is all there is to debate and vote upon.
The government depends, in all of this, upon the Opposition having no clear policies, and so being permanently unprepared for combat. The media, slothful and very nearly as amateurish as their Labor friends, are in a ...