Liberal candidate for Greenway, Jaymes Diaz gets grilled by Ten reporter John Hill. Here are the highlights. Courtesy Channel Ten
Glossy Real Solutions brochure? Tick.
Rhetoric on stopping the boats? Tick.
Actual grasp of Coalition policy? Um, let's just leave it at 'stop the boats', shall we?
It's hard not to feel sorry for Greenway candidate Jaymes Diaz, who was easily stumped by a bit of gotcha journalism.
He stumble-mumbled his way around a question about exactly how a Coalition Government would stop asylum seeker boats then slipped over on a banana peel query about the company tax increase to fund Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme.
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We've seen before what happens when the party machinery wheels out a woefully underprepared candidate. 'Celebrity' Labor candidate Nicole Cornes had a tilt at Boothby, in Adelaide's south, in 2007.
She was seen as the great hope to topple the Liberal incumbent, Andrew Southcott. But her first press conference was an unmitigated disaster.
She floundered badly on workplace laws, the killer issue in 2007, and failed to win the seat in the context of a statewide swing to Labor.
The party should never have sent a green candidate out without proper preparation.
Mr Abbott defended Mr Diaz, saying his inexperience was pitted against an experienced journalist.
But Mr Diaz is no novice, and this wasn't his first time running - he contested the uber-marginal Western Sydney seat last time, and achieved a 5 per cent swing.
And besides, this is his job. Did he have something more important to do than get across the basic details of his party's policies? They're not that complex, and remember if people push for too much detail on boats you can always just say operational concerns stop you from giving more detail. And on financial matters, you can just turn that little boat around and attack Labor's dire budgetary circumstances.
This is your job. Real Solutions, which you clenched merrily throughout the interview, is only 50-odd pages. All the details are in there, right?
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