Liberal Party succession issue irrelevant

Original letter

Like every thinking compassionate person in this country I desperately want to see the end of both Howard and Costello, but I am dismayed to have learnt that the Federal Labor Party is, yet again, poised to pour millions of their hard-earned advertising dollars in an attempt to, once again, focus voter attention on the Liberal Party leadership succession issue ("Costello and Howard side by side", 14 Sep). This strategy has been employed twice before and has failed twice before.

Logically, at some point, John Howard must make way to a successor. If the Labor Party objects to the timing and method, then perhaps it should suggest a better time and a better method.

The fact that key Labor strategists see this non-issue, rather than global warming, 'WorkChoices", the AWB scandal, the Iraq War, privatisation and almost innumerable other examples of Howard's and Costello's misgovernment, as the key to victory, suggests to me that the Labor Party urgently needs to find new election strategists.

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Like most compassionate people in this country I desperately want to see the end of both Howard and Costello, but I am dismayed to have learnt that the Federal Labor Party is, yet again, poised to pour millions of their hard-earned advertising dollars in an attempt to, once again, focus voter attention on the Liberal Party leadership succession issue ("Costello and Howard side by side", 14 Sep).

This strategy has been employed twice before and has failed twice before.

Logically, at some point, John Howard must make way to a successor.

The fact that key Labor strategists see this non-issue, rather than global warming, 'WorkChoices", the AWB scandal, the Iraq War, privatisation and almost innumerable other examples of Howard's and Costello's misgovernment, as the key to victory, suggests to me that the Labor Party urgently needs to find new election strategists.