Senator Andrew Bartlett
Monday, January 31, 2005
 
contrasting journos
I noted an interesting contrast between the content of two articles on Kim Beazley in weekend newspapers.

Firstly, from an article by Mike Steketee (who I put amongst the better political journos) in Saturday's Weekend Australian:

He (Beazley) is sticking with caucus's post-election endorsement, in principle though not in detail, of major policies which Latham took to the last election, including controversial areas such as free hospital treatment for over-75 years olds and the protection of Tasmanian forests. Beazley says he can hardly pronounce on new policy directions when he has just committed to consulting more with colleagues.

This seems somewhat in contradiction with equally strong assertions in this piece from Glenn Milne in the Sunday Telegraph:

In a bold first move, Mr Beazley has moved to junk two of Mark Latham's most divisive policies at the last election: his punitive attack on private-school funding and his open-ended commitment to save Tasmania's old growth forests. Mr Beazley … said the centrepiece of Labor's poorly received Medicare Gold package – free hospital care for all Australians over 75 – had been dropped.

I wonder which is correct?


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