Mercury (Hobart)

Point in time

- Elizabeth Osborne North Hobart Tony Geeves Rosetta Geoff Dannock Blackmans Bay

REBECCA White, the leader of the ALP, announced that the plan by Labor to ban poker machines has been dumped. “It was a point in time commitment.” Voters on election day will wonder how many other ALP policies are also “point in time commitment­s”.

Backflip Bec

WE had backflip Bartlett we now have backflip Bec. The Labor Party has just lost all hope of getting votes with this pokie machine backflip.

Fleeting moments

FOR one fleeting moment I wondered if the climate change ignorance of Liberals like Tony Abbott and Eric Abetz would be challenged by the ever-increasing evidence of floods, droughts, record temperatur­es, storms, bushfires, dead rivers and reefs … but it was only for one fleeting moment.

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