Abstract:
Narrative, it’s said, is everything in electoral politics. You need to give the punters a story that makes sense of their lives and connects them to some bigger picture. If that’s so, then Tony Abbott is like one of those experimental, Pynchonesque postmodernists who eschews formal narrative conventions in favour of a series of seemingly random episodes that may or may not be related. That, at any rate, is the lesson from the first months of Abbott’s leadership.
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