I mentioned in my previous post that the LNP has been working hard for the past three years to create a climate of anxiety. One person who doesn't seem to need much help to become anxious is Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk. Every time I have seen her in the media over the last three years her face has worn an anxious, harried expression. She even wears it in the election advertising that has appeared on our TVs this week. The only time it left her face was in the press conference she gave following the announcement of the election date. Presumably she was told by her media advisers that she should smile more, so she tried one at the end of the conference. It wasn't convincing. Of course she has a lot to be anxious about. She was a low-profile cabinet minister in the Bligh Government - her most senior post was as Minister for Transport and Multicultural Affairs in the final year of the government. Then following the electoral rout of March 2012 she found herse
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson