The Reset Landed with a Thud

Election 2022

As I noted the other day:

…. Morrison has held off as long as possible to call an election in the hope that the stink surrounding his rotten government on so many fronts burns itself out, that the media tires of reporting it, in their goldfish way, and that he (and they) can reset within the finite constraints of an election campaign.

What I underestimated was the ferocity of this reset.

The absolute brutality and glee with which the press gang jumped on Alabanes’s failure to cite the daily cash rate and official unemployment rate speaks to a level of fear of a Labor win within key sections of the media that even I did not expect.