Some bloggers have noticed that at today’s interest rates press conference John Howard stood in front of a giant Australian flag backdrop rather than the standard backdrop displaying the Liberal Party campaign slogan “Go For Growth”.

(Image from here)

There is speculation that since the Reserve Bank reckons growth equals further interest rates rises the Libs have shat themselves and binned the growth slogan. Might be something in that. Here’s the Liberal Party website header today:

And here’s the Liberal Party website header on October 14, 2007:

Looks like John Howard has been forced to dump his slogan with three weeks of the campaign remaining.

UPDATE (8/11): As noted by Mikey in comments, the header image has now been changed back to the “Go For Growth” version. Maybe they were just steering clear of the growth thing on Black Wednesday…