The PM wants voters to trust him, while Labor leader Anthony Albanese wants them to blame him. | David Crowe | OPINION auspol
Scott Morrison is fighting for survival at the federal election by making three central claims about the help he offers Australians at a dramatic turn of the nation’s economic tide.
The three claims are based on fact and are essential to what Morrison calls the “shield” that can protect households from financial pain. He listed them without hesitation on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank lifted interest rates. Peak business groups seem comfortable with the idea of a Labor government and are not expressing any alarm about what it would mean for their profits or share prices.
In some ways, this is a contrast between the backyard and the boardroom: Albanese tries to channel household anger at the government, while Morrison offers the reassurance of the incumbent. What Australians are seeing is a rare sight at a recent federal election: a leader being forced to run on his record.
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