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Thursday 8 August, 9.30am

Good morning, Jean Acheson here, and with the two major parties running neck-and-neck in the polls, Opposition Leader Lou Feeney went on breakfast television this morning in an attempt to break the deadlock.

A panel of interrogators spent an hour grilling Mr Feeney on his policies, then they canvassed his involvement in the so-called fire-dance affair. The studio audience included a group of Mr Feeney’s old schoolmates from Saint Phillip’s, and to a man, they backed his claim that the ‘rancid’ fire dance was no more than a harmless schoolboy ritual.

The opposition leader later detailed a number of other rumours that he says the government is spreading about him, and he attempted to debunk them as well.

Meanwhile, despite the government’s surge in the polls, Prime Minister Michael Lansdowne appears to have lost some of his trademark poise on the hustings. He’s even been snapping at reporters. Maybe the closeness of the contest is getting to him. Or perhaps the loss of Susan Wright and Alan Proctor is taking a personal toll. This is Jean Acheson. Back with more soon.