Knowing a byelection would be coming the Liberals arrived back from holidays armed with a question crafted for the mortgage belt: why does everything cost more under Labor?
in the current inflation-busting cycle. Before that, the Coalition perpetrated for a decade the public policy equivalent of a multiple-car pile-up in Australia’s energy market, which is one of the factors behindSo Dutton’s j’accuse is a distance short of compelling.
Remember when John Howard predicted the times would suit him? Dutton is similarly aspirational. There’s a difference though. Howard could afford to wait 10 years for the times to suit him but Dutton doesn’t have a decade. If he wants to be prime minister, he’ll get one shot – the election in 2025 – perhaps two if he can land a decisive blow during that contest. Dutton’s short runway probably heightens the incentives to chase the knockout blow.
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