There's a new blood sport. Ask Anthony Albanese a gotcha question and watch the reaction.
On Day One of the election, he gifted the incumbent Prime Minister a free hit by not knowing the rate of unemployment and the cash rate set by the Reserve Bank, two figures at the absolute core of economic policy.
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And economic policy, as a string of Liberal ministers have not been slow to point out, will be the spearhead of the Liberal attack on Labor.
On Day Two, the Labor leader tried to retrieve his position - unshoot himself in the foot, as it were.
"Yesterday I made a mistake and guess what? I fessed up to it," he said on the campaign trail in Tasmania.
And he sought solace in music: "I quoted, the Ramones on Day One of the campaign ('Hey-Ho Let's go!'). Here is a Taylor Swift comment for you, my theory is: 'Shake it off'," he said.
It may work but the media pack now scents blood. Mr Albanese was asked if he knew who Australia's human rights commissioner is. He did not.
This may or may not matter to voters. Certainly, former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard didn't think the original lack of knowledge amounted to much. "Anthony Albanese didn't know the unemployment rate. So what?" Mr Howard was quoted as saying.
This cut no ice. Mr Morrison loved the opportunity to dish it out to the contender (if he'd had a tail he would have wagged it). "His fundamental understanding of the economy is wrong. He doesn't know what's happening in the economy."
To be fair to Mr Albanese, he still came over as genial. If it's blood sport, the fox manages a smile.
Only 39 days to go.
In what must seem like a universe away, we shouldn't forget the horrors or Ukraine.
There are reports of rape by Russian soldiers, reports which defy the imagination. Australia is also anxious to establish whether Russian forces have used chemical weapons.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said chemical attacks in the besieged city of Mariupol would constitute a "wholesale breach of international law".
A section of the Ukrainian army has accused Russian troops of using an unidentified chemical substance in the holdout city, leaving victims struggling for air.
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Steve Evans
Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."
Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."
