CANBERRA OBSERVED: NSW Liberals in the spotlight as election looms*

If Kim Beazley thought he couldn’t get a run with his policies at the last federal election, pity the new NSW Liberal leader John Brogden.Young, inexperienced, heading a divided party with a major shortfall in donor funds, he has been almost invisible since Christmas in the lead-up to the campaign proper.Invisibility is not Brogden’s fault – there has simply been no interest in the campaign.Beazley’s complaint during the 2001 poll was that “Tampa and terror” swamped his planned election campaign…

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