The floundering Gillard government is dead.
That’s the overwhelming take from the nation’s media since the High Court delivered its decision on Australia’s obligations to asylum seekers.
Until that point, last Wednesday, the government was barely hanging on. The carbon tax, the Craig Thomson shenanigans and Tony Abbott’s disciplined negativity and his control of the political debate had the government in open survival mode. Abbott’s telling mantra of an “incompetent" government was resonating.
And the Labor brand itself was putrid, as recently published state polls numbers in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria attest.
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