LETTERS It is going to be a long contest of ideas ("Election 2016: a welcome contest of ideas", May 7-8). Let us hope more light than heat will be generated in the process and scaremongering by either side treated with contempt. On policy criteria such as fairness or benefit to all, Labor leads on major fronts like health, education, taxation and climate change. On personality, though, Malcolm Turnbull is well ahead of an improving Bill Shorten and personality often intersects with policy to determine election outcomes as, for example, Bob Hawke's ascendancy showed and more recently that of the charismatic Justin Trudeau in Canada. So, despite...
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