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Political Chronicle poll which had the state of public opinion thus: ALP 5 1 per cent, LiberaVNational 42 per cent, AD 5 per cenl., Others 3 per cent. The government, as governments are wont to do, ran on its record. It congratulated itself on its economic management, blamed adverse trading conditions on the balance of trade and escalating foreign debt figures, proclaimed that hard times ahead meant a continuation of wage restraint and promised t o abolish child poverty by 1990. Laborâs campaign was crafted around the person and the office of the Prime Ministei. Hawke was seemingly in all places at once, all things t o all people. When ALP research showed, during the campaign, that the environmental vote was turning against Labor, favouring the Democrats, Hawke pledged to protect Kakadu National Park by placing it o n the World Heritage Register and, at the end o f the campaign, visited Moreton Island, pledging to take whatever steps necessary to prevent sand mining there, to the obvious chagrin of Bjelke-Petersen. The Nationals were in serious disarray and ran perhaps their worst campaign in memory. The announcement of the election came when Bjelke-Petersen was out of the country
Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1987
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