He said-she said

This week Tony Abbott actually appeared on the ABC's 7.30 program, where his inability to answer serious questions about substance rather than slogans was embarrassingly obvious.   24 hours later Julia Gillard faced a barrage of questions from the press gallery to deal with allegations about her conduct as a lawyer 17 years ago.  She spent 50 minutes answering all questions until journalists had no more to ask.

The contrast in media behavior between Tony and Julia was stark.

And one media outlet published one claim about the PM's past behavior, then retracted it and  apologized.  Again! (This claim had been published  by them,  then retracted on another occasion)  No prizes for guessing  which newspaper!

Return of the whales.

Electioneering is almost over and put into perspective by some real news from Hobart.  For the first time in 189 years a whale has given birth to a calf in waters off a Taroona beach close to my sister's home. So much more exciting than Julia's 6 radio interviews before 8am today, or Tony's vow to keep talking to voters all through the night.