Premier Steve Bracks had a foot-in-mouth moment when he was caught on camera saying "the elections are about a third-order issue - water, drought, then the election".
He also suggested he wasn't to worried about any ill-feeling in the electorate.
"Oh yeah, you've got an election as well. Which in a way is, you know, saying that they're not out there with baseball bats ready to get us, I guess."
Mr Bracks later defended his comments, saying people weren't really focused on the campaign yet.
"I think there is a lot of undecided voters. Those undecided voters could break any way and it could mean a change of government, it could mean support for the existing Government. We don't know, we honestly don't know and we certainly are not taking that for granted."
Posted: Friday, November 10 2006 .