Beattie will give a press conference at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time. I’ll do a post after I’ve heard it with some preliminary analysis. Will be interesting to see how the public wears an election being called right in the middle of their summer holiday. On the assumption that nothing will really start properly in the campaign until after the Australia Day holiday that leaves an incredibly short campaign of one and a half weeks.
I’ll have to admit this caught me more or less by surprise, but at least one candidate seems to have known (apart from the Premier). Liberal Bruce Flegg advised his campaign supporters of the date yesterday!