Bad guys hurt the good guys
Edition 1SUN 20 APR 1997, Page 138 Bad guys hurt the good guys By RICHARD FARMER BLAMING the government -whether it is responsible or not -is the normal reaction of voters and John Howard well knows it. It is the reason that he is floundering around trying to make it look like he is doing something about Mal Colston while hoping to keep benefiting from his presence in the Senate. For more than a year the Labor Opposition has been unable to dent Mr Howard's high standing in the opinion polls by pointing to things that he has actually done or left undone. Now the disclosure of the details of the travel and other expense claims of the Queensland Independent Senator, claims for which the government is in no way responsible, is starting to hurt the Coalition's standing. There is certainly very little that is fair about politics when the actions of the bad guys hurt the good guys, but that is how it is. All politicians get smeared with the muck raked up about the few and one part...