Major Parties Pay for Lack of Vision

Both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have little experience in campaigning as party leaders and are learning on the job.

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot are both inexperienced campaigners with an equal chance of winning, forcing a safe, and lacklustre campaign on the electorate. Alan Porritt/Getty Images

“I hate those slander ads. I don’t want to hear what is wrong with the other person, I want to hear what they are going to do!” says 22-year-old Tom, who is frustrated with the 2010 Federal election campaign and voting for only the second time in his life. Tom was never going to get what he wanted in this campaign though.