The Australian election is a week away, September 7. The current opposition coalition parties are in front in the polls, and have been pretty much the whole campaign.
The Economist magazine, though, is endorsing current PM Rudd;
- Says “the choice for voters, frankly, is not great”
- “the coalition’s leader, Tony Abbott, does not seem an instinctive fan of markets, and one of the few key policies he has let on to possessing is a hugely expensive federal scheme for parental leave”
- On the current government: “it has a reasonable record … Mr Rudd gets our vote, largely because of Labor’s decent record … his numbers look more likely to add up than Mr Abbott’s”
There is more detail at the article (not gated, though you may have to (free) register)
