I’m writing this as John Howard is meeting with the Governor General, presumably to call a federal election.

In the last 24 hours, I’ve been reflecting and wondering about the campaign we are going to see. I’m thinking the coalition will probably try to use fear, uncertainty and “national security”to convince the Australian public to stick with the coalition. The general idea is keep the population afraid and then they’ll vote to keep the current government.

So, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the following from the coalition during the campaign:

Of course, using fear like this doesn’t work forever. If the coalition has already pushed the buttons too many times (like in the last federal election), then Australians may well see it all as more tricky lies. We’ll see.