Australian Labor Leader and FM Radio

Adam Swift pointed this up. As the campaign for the next elections in Australia are well under way, the Labour Party is fonding ways to reach younger viewers. From The Australian:

"OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd appeared last Thursday as a special guest on the Nova FM breakfast program in Sydney. He was wired to an electric-shock machine.

His ebullient hosts, the duo known as Merrick and Rosso, asked him to take part in a freewheeling, unscripted and, let's face it, potentially catastrophic test in which Rudd would get a short, sharp electric shock if he failed to correctly answer one of the questions put to him.

Rudd managed quite well but then missed a beat. He got a jolt and nearly fell off his chair, laughing. Once he'd recovered, he immediately asked the hosts if they could get John Howard on the program, wire him up to the shock machine, turn up the voltage and really give the Prime Minister a jolt.

In fact, the shock machine is hardly necessary: confidential internal government polling and last week's Newspoll clearly show young voters are preparing to give Howard an extremely high voltage poke with the cattle prod.

The Newspoll showed 53 per cent of voters aged up to 34 would support Labor at the coming election. The Coalition had just 30 per cent of these votes, a drop of 10 percentage points."

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