The Coalition seems to be relying on the disgruntlement of voters with the government over tough times, rather than actively producing serious policies to do anything about it.
Next week will see the first anniversary of the Albanese government's decision to redesign the Stage 3 tax cuts to ensure they were distributed across income levels, rather than just going to those on higher incomes.
It's a change from last year, when Dutton was able to throw the government's plans off course, and populate the headlines, with stories about unleashed criminals or banning Palestinians trying to escape Gaza. The doorstops are more a hotchpotch of local questions and questions phoned in from Canberra than the more focused scrutiny you might get at a Canberra press conference, or even by appearing at the National Press Club, but the local journos are still doing their job.
An energy policy which put downward pressure on prices would certainly be applauded. But the Coalition's energy policy to date consists of a nuclear policy which would not see a new form of energy come on stream for decades and which will, in the meantime, involve taxpayers footing a bill for hundreds of billions of dollars. So no immediate price relief there.
It feels for all the world like the Coalition is relying on the disgruntlement of voters with the government for what really are very tough times for a lot of people, rather than actively producing serious policies to do anything about it.A Coalition source said this week that cost of living was not an issue on which the Opposition has any advantage, so it is better off playing to its, and particularly Dutton's, strengths: issues like law and order, and culture war issues like Australia Day.
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