BOATLOADS of 'em ...

It's already begun - Ghastly Blamange (Philip Ruddock) started it by oozing onto numerous hourly newses to ominously `not rule out' the possibility of a London style attack in Australia. But could there be a more Howardly comment than this (made on last night's Lateline:

JOHN HOWARD, PRIME MINISTER: We shouldn't complacently imagine that there aren't potentially suicide bombers in this country. I believe the threat is less in Australia, but we should not be complacent about this.

There, there. Vote for us and it'll be aaaall better.