We are suckers for scare campaigns

By Ross Gittins
Updated March 27 2015 - 4:08am, first published 3:29am
Wants to lease 49 per cent of the power network: Premier Mike Baird. Photo: Brendan Esposito
Wants to lease 49 per cent of the power network: Premier Mike Baird. Photo: Brendan Esposito
Reasoned debate AWOL: Luke Foley at Vales Point Power Station on the Central Coast. Photo: Edwina Pickles
Reasoned debate AWOL: Luke Foley at Vales Point Power Station on the Central Coast. Photo: Edwina Pickles

The politicians' decades of bad behaviour may have caused them to lose our trust, but not our mistrust - making us suckers for scare campaigns.