If you're a Labor candidate at this election, you have disguised the fact as well as you can to avoid any blowback from the state electoral disaster. Advocacy groups such as GetUp will campaign on election day in support of you and young volunteers handing out how to vote flyers will announce to voters that they are not supporting any political party. Bollocks.
If you're a Green candidate you might do the same thing to avoid being aligned with big national issues that don't resonate at local level. You're probably campaigning as an independent.
And if you're a Liberal you might this round have nailed your colours to the mast for the first time in a generation. Not so National candidates in the regions who still campaign as independents.
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All up then, the 'grassroots' campaigns being run by local government candidates are about creating images that are opaque, content-free, and diversionary.
No wonder there is no real communication and limited public discourse. Think I might be movin' to Mt Anna soon just to raise me up a crop of dental floss.
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