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Everyone’s favourite croning crusader, Peter Garrett, did his best to add some spice to an otherwise dreary election campaign last week. Not content to let radio 2UE’s Steve Price think that this campaign is shaping up to be a “me too” effort; with Labor and Liberal leaders each snagging popular policy choices from the other, he boldly (or should that be ‘baldly’) let the nation know just how different the two parties really are at heart.

As it turns out, one party has a sense of humour. The other, desperate to claw back some popularity points, would rather take things a little too seriously…and you know how much we dislike serious politics around the Oz Election office.

When Price approached him with the “me too” proposition, Garrett responded by claiming that none of that matters because “once we get in, we’ll just change it all.” With that one ambiguous, tongue-in-cheek statement on record, it seems as though Mr Price and the Liberal Party could not have received a greater blessing. Showing that they are, too, capable of some creative thought, Garrett’s opposition decided to beat up their interpretation of the incident until it became a shuddering, election-changing media magnet. It was as though Rudd himself had claimed that the country would go commie after a Labor victory.

 Those of you who are based in Australia would no doubt have found this issue impossible to dodge in the mainstream media. For those who have been living overseas, or under a rock, during the past week, here’s a link to Price’s take on the encounter:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22696103-5007146,00.html

So what do you all think? Did Garrett just pick the wrong audience for his attempt at making light of the “me too” suggestion, or could it be that “the Price is right”?