Grattan on Friday: Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease

Coalition’s reason for timing of defence policy doesn’t wash

Whatever the result on May 3, even people within the Liberals think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd.

Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and elbow grease

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Shadow Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie at a press conference after visiting a defence manufacturing facility in Belmont, Perth. Mick Tsikas/AAP The Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN. Whatever the result on May 3, even people within the Liberals think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd. Michelle Gratt…

Coalition's campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease

Whatever the result on May 3, even people within the Liberals think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd.

Grattan on Friday: Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease

Whatever the result on May 3, even Liberal insiders think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd.

Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease

Grattan on Friday: Coalition’s campaign lacks good planning and enough elbow grease Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Whatever the result on May 3, even people within the Liberals think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd. Nothing makes the point more strongly than this week’s release of the opposition’s defence policy. As events played out, its Wednesday launch in Perth was overshadowed by the death of Po…