Stage 3 Policy Restrictions

Australia is experiencing a decade-long political-empathy drought, and the major parties have initiated Stage 3 policy restrictions.

What State 3 Policy Restrictions mean:
Under Stage 3 policy restrictions policies can be released on specified days, usually during a sporting event, tragedy, or other distraction. A vague press release fitted with spin and rhetoric can be used to educate the public on party policy.

A policy dripper system can be used to slowly release policies, making collection and overall understanding of policy difficult, as well as delaying any critical judgement until the last minute, when the full policy can be argued against.

Personal attacks:
To keep the public from straying into awareness of policies and promises, a concerted effort will be used to focus on personality. For example: emphasis on the leader, his/her experience, which one of the two leaders would you trust, the deputy leaders’ hair/attire/menstruation. The topics raised should have no effect on the future of the nation.

Ignore the future:
Avoid promises, such as no child living in poverty by 1990, not by setting realistic goals, nor by devising policies in an attempt to achieve those goals, simply avoid promises regarding outcomes altogether. Concentrate on the past – claim that under a party’s previous reign a certain poverty statistic was worse, rather than work towards eliminating poverty itself.