I'll believe it when I see it.

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I have a couple of points to make about this.

1. I think Rudd's getting a little carried away with his rhetoric. “Corrupting Democracy,” not quite. Abusing Democracy, maybe. Certainly insulting democracy. But not quite corrupting it. Yet.
   
2. As far as it goes, though, he has a point. The government is spending gazillions on advertising, much of it for obviously spurious puff. It is saturating the airwaves, pumping out propaganda about how wonderful it is, and how you must fear everything, and trust in the Liberal Party Government to protect you from the horrible horrible world.
   
   But. I'll believe he's serious about doing something when he has not only stopped it, but made it next to impossible for anyone to do it again — including for him.
   
   Because Howard made exactly the same noises about this sort of bullshit when he was in Rudd's position. And we can all see how serious he was about changing a system which was suddenly tilted in his favour.