A FORTNIGHT into this six-week election campaign and two areas - energy and national security - have begun to rise above a mass of other potential considerations to become the defining issues, thus far, of the road to May 21.
National Senator Matt Canavan may be on the outer, as things stand, in Coalition circles, but he came to the Hunter a week ago with a plan to trip-up Labor on coal, and his resultant tangle with Pat Conroy, reported in the Newcastle Herald, triggered a debate that was still going yesterday.
