When South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs tried to celebrate prematurely upon catching Steve Waugh he infamously fumbled the ball. Waugh’s apocryphal words to him afterwards became the stuff of legend: “You’ve just dropped the World Cup.” Likewise Anthony Albanese might well say to Penny Wong after her excruciating Voice bungle: “You’ve just dropped majority government.” FULL LIST: Every polling booth if you want to vote early The Foreign Minister’s casual and cavalier suggestion to a podcast that the doomed referendum proposal was going to happen anyway is about as stupid and smug as it gets, and an appalling own goal for Labor in the final days of a campaign that has otherwise been incredibly disciplined and effective. INTERACTIVE: Don't know who to vote for? Election MatchMaker is here to help ‘They’re No Oil Paintings’ by Warren Brown. When I saw the first report of it late last night my eyes popped out of my head and I immediately texted the story to a veteran Labor campaign strategist. “God help us if this takes off,” he said. Needless to say it did take off and there was not much even God Himself could do about it. CLICK HERE FOR JOE HILDEBRAND'S FULL ANALYSIS |