Straws in the Wind: The great wombat race / Inch by inch / Escobar lives!*

The great wombat raceBy the time most readers have had a chance to start devouring this issue of News Weekly, the election will be over. To, I think, everyone’s total satisfaction. An Old Left ex-journo friend, still entrapped in the dream-world of The Age and the ABC, despite a lifetime of observing politics, said that it was the worst election campaign that he could remember. He may well be correct.I write with another week to go, but barring some last-minute super-beat-up, like the Left’s new…

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