This article criticizes both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton for their handling of policy announcements, accusing them of treating voters with contempt. It highlights Albanese's contradictory stance on consumer ripoffs and Dutton's refusal to provide costings for his nuclear plan.
“Voters don’t deserve to be treated as fools by politicians. They deserve much, much better than that.” So said Anthony Albanese recently.
Showing his contempt for Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, Dutton says he will produce his costings at a time that suits him, not Bowen. That contempt filters through to voters who have a right to know, well before polling day, how much they will be up for and whether Dutton’s numbers and timelines stack up.
Inside the senior echelons of the government there was anger over the Treasury leak, frustration over the handling of it by the prime minister and Treasurer Jim Chalmers, and despair that once again they had overshadowed their own achievements. Albanese chose to follow his government’s usual practice of allowing either avoidable or easily fixable issues to run for days so they keep distracting from their own good news stories, which this time included a drop in inflation and anotherThe government’s management of the economy, under the stewardship of Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, has helped bring inflation down, kept employment up and increased prospects of an interest rate cut early next year.
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