Look at Moi

This year’s Federal election in Australia is unlikely to hinge on issues relating to financial services, yet the outcome is being keenly monitored by the industry’s power brokers and lobbyists.

With this in mind readers may be interested to hear of some tit-for-tat campaigning in the prized federal parliamentary seat of Bennelong over the weekend – the seat currently held by Prime Minister John Howard.

burningpants received a tip off late last week that Howard, who is up against Labor’s Maxine McKew – the formidable former host of the ABC’s Lateline and 7.30 Report shows – was apparently alerted that McKew was set to oversee the raffle at St Kevin’s Eastwood Primary School.

On hearing the news, the PM’s spin doctor team were quick to move in a bid to upstage the former journalist by arranging it so that Howard could in fact open Saturday’s (June 23rd)  fete at St Kevin’s – a Catholic Primary School in the heart of the electorate.

McKew, a Catholic herself, could take heart from her reduced role of spinning the tombola armed with the knowledge that at this stage the result of the upcoming election is also looking like a raffle – well maybe the slightly shorter odds of a game of two-up!