Rudd effect: 7.30 Report
Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:26 | by Graham Young



7.30_ReportLast night's 7.30 report featured a cameo appearance by yours truly. This election will be lost and won in the Queensland and New South Wales and they were looking at a series of marginal seats in and around Brisbane.

I come almost at the end of the clip and only a few, but amazingly prescient, words of the interview actually survived. My part was recorded Thursday of last week before Laurie Oakes had started his questioning of Julia Gillard based on a series of leaks. The part of my interview they used was me saying that there was no discernable Rudd effect in Queensland, and that the only effect he looked like having on the Labor campaign was in giving it "dirty air".

Our survey responses show that there was no greater concern about the way that Kevin Rudd was dumped in Queensland than in any other state. They also showed that those most likely to be concerned are those who weren't voting for Rudd in the first place.

Peter McCutcheon who conducted the interview wanted to know about the Rudd effect at the last election. I said I didn't think there had been one because a number of seats Labor could have supposed it would win, such as Herbert and Bowman, has stayed with the Liberals. Last time we had an election result like 2007 was 1983 when the Liberals were reduced to holding only 3 seats in the entire state. They did much better this time.

 

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