The majority of the material is anti-Zali Steggall. A lot of these negative ads don't even mention Tony Abbott so I guess they think that he's a bit of a liability and it's better to go negative and leave it to the voters to hopefully tick his box.
I've had personalised letters from Scott Morrison, Mathias Cormann and John Howard. Here's a collection of things arriving in the letterbox.
It's interesting that Morrison says "I understand that many people in Warringah have strong opinions about your local MP, Tony Abbott".
John Howard's pitch came on rather dated looking letterhead and basically frames Tony as an old mate. Howard has some other mates too, that's not necessarily going to save him.
There's an anti-Zali billboard up on the fence at the school oval - which strikes me as inappropriate.
Zali has sent a few notes and we've had door knockers from her side too who seemed to think that it's going pretty well for her.
A mobile billboard came around one day and it was amusing to see it parked next to a tiny Tony poster.
There has been some mail from Zali.
Clearly there is support in this suburb on both sides and some houses have put up posters, sometimes they face each other.
Most striking have been the unrelenting negative ads I got every time I opened Instagram.
In the end I reported the ad as misleading and that's stopped them for me. The funny thing is that sometimes they left comments on and they're pretty funny as you might imagine. (Click images to enlarge them).
I've been surveyed several times and had a live call from someone who said that Tony had asked him to call to check that they have my support. Yesterday this text message came through.
Interesting that the issue today is a tunnel or not.
Tony Abbott and team are spending serious money here, I guess that means they're genuinely concerned. It's been a very negative campaign on the Liberal side. The drumbeat line saying that a vote for Steggall is a vote for Labour may not work if there's a big swing to Labour.
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