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If you’ve been following the election news you will have noticed the big kerfuffle over the apparent copying of policies, primarily accusations that the Labor Party are copying Liberal Party policies, though there’s the occasional Liberal copycat labels being thrown around as well.

Here is an example from Reuters, if you’ve not seen anything previously.

What people on all sides seem to be forgetting is that it’s not the “other side’s” responsibility to blindly oppose everything proposed by one party. That isn’t how the system is supposed to work. Good ideas - regardless of who they come from - are supposed to be supported, while bad ones are supposed to be voted down.

While it’s true that neither side should simply be automatically matching everything the other does, it is also true that there ought to be some areas on which both sides concur. Neither Labor nor Liberal want to see gay marriage legalised and yet that is not considered a “copycat” stance.

But when it comes to giving money to sick kiddies, whoever gets their pork barrel in the door first is the only one allowed to do so?

I think the Liberal Party is simply scared to run with few significant policy differences between the parties, forcing it to come down to a test of character.

A test the Liberals can not possibly win.

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