Friday, March 17, 2006
Biggest negative advertising blitz ever
No election in Australia has ever seen such a negative advertising blitz from so many sources directed at one party.
The massive advertising blitz being funded by big business and the woodchipping industry against "minority Government" in Tasmania is actually nothing of the sort.
It is a campaign against the Greens. During the final weekend of the campaign every single ad break on evening commercial TV featured attack ads on the Greens and "minority government" (often more than one such spot in each break).
It is not just the Exclusive Brethren (Crikey yesterday) funding advertising targeting the Greens. On top of the Labor and Liberals anti-Green material there is the forest industry's mega bucks and huge spend from the shadowy big business group Tasmanians for a Better Future. Every day, new full page advertisements appear in the paper (click here to see one the of latest ads).
Has an election in Australia ever seen such a negative advertising blitz from so many sources directed at one party?
And this is not the first time that the Exclusive Brethren has entered into the electoral fray against the Greens. Tasmanian Liberals' state director, Damien Mantach met with them and then admitted that the Liberals in NSW had a financial arrangement with the Brethren when targeting the Greens in the 2004 federal poll in NSW. Then there was their controversial anti-Greens campaign in NZ least year.
See the wonderfully positive Greens advertising counter attack here and here.
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