FED:Coalition has winning chance, says Robb

AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2010
FED:Coalition has winning chance, says Robb

CANBERRA, Aug 14 AAP - Liberal frontbencher Andrew Robb says the election result is
on a knife's edge and the coalition has a winning chance.

That's despite the latest Nielsen poll in Fairfax newspapers showing Labor is in the lead.

On a two-party preferred basis, the ALP is in front of the coalition 53 per cent to
47 per cent. The poll also puts Labor ahead on primary votes, with a four per cent swing
in its favour.

Mr Robb, the coalition's campaign spokesman, said the polls showed this was a highly
volatile election campaign.

"They were taken against the background of the sandbagging strategy of Labor's faceless
men," he told ABC radio.

Mr Robb said the latest week had seen a "feast of pork" promised to Labor marginal
seats to buy a "dishonourable victory as we saw recently in South Australia".

Labor had promised billions on many projects which would never see light of day, he said.

He said electors faced a stark choice that would concentrate their minds over the next week.

"I think we are still in with a very big chance."

Mr Robb said he didn't accept that the coalition was performing poorly in Victoria,
although Ms Gillard did have a hometown girl factor.

"I do think there is still a deep-seated concern across Victoria about the incompetence
and the division and the waste," he said.

"That factor will very much focus the minds over the next week and we will see a knife-edge
result."

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