When the studio lights were switched on, and the sound check completed, Kerri-Anne Kennerley knew what she was about to do.
She was going to make headlines.
As measured and strategic as any election campaign, Kennerley began, “If Bill Shorten gets in, it will be the end of life as we know it.”
The words were prepared, having turned themselves around in the head of a television presenter who has been in the industry for more than five decades.
“Honestly, without question,” she continued, before leaving a pause for a scoff or perhaps a dismissive chuckle, filled by her co-hosts just in time. Good! Kennerley had something to argue against.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley shares her thoughts on the upcoming election. Post continues below.
Looking down the barrel of the camera, she recycled the line: “Again, Labor government spend, spend, spend.”
After a monologue about franking credits, which she joked she had to Google, and something about how everyone’s rent is going to go up, she added: “Anybody who believes they’ll be better off if Shorten and the Greens get in, is under some whoopy-do cloud. It will never, ever happen. You will tank.”
She didn’t stop there.
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Oh come on! As if KAK’s monologue had that much power! It was labor’s tax laws and fight against free speech that undid them! The majority of Australians clearly fought against this!
This is the woman who earlier this year objected to Yumi Stynes pointing out that she was "sounding quite racist" when she claimed that Invasion Day protesters were ignorant of Aboriginal women and children being raped in the Outback. I doubt that she's swaying any undecided voters: like the shock jocks, she is just saying what her target audience already want to hear. I think Bob Hawke's death will be far more influential: discussion of his achievements is a direct counter to the argument that Labor is constitutionally unable to manage the economy effectively.