Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy is riddled with holes. But it may be that credibility on the details is simply not what matters about Dutton: his image is of toughness, not policy smarts.
In the column, Wood strongly commended Labor’s childcare policies. Specifically, she and her colleague Martin Stokie praised higher wages for childcare workers as “the fundamental first step” in a series of necessary reforms. Last week’s announcement of $1 billion for more childcare centres in places where there aren’t enough was, they wrote, a “welcome next response”.
The contrast between these episodes points to a divide that has been on display for most of this term. It would be going too far to describe the Albanese government as a paragon of policy development – witness Wood’s early criticisms or its debatable social media ban. Still, it would be reasonable to say this has been a government with an earnest commitment to traditional policy processes, a willingness to engage at the level of detail, and a faith in expert advice and institutions.
Won’t coal plants mostly stop working before nuclear starts, leaving a gap that needs to be filled – an issue raised by coal plant ownersAnd yet there is a sense that with just months until the election Labor has barely laid a glove on Dutton’s policy problems. Why?, as reported in this masthead, that the Murdoch press is cheerleading for the Coalition. It may also be that credibility on details is simply not what matters about Dutton: his image is of toughness, not policy smarts.
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