ANALYSIS: Shorten and Morrison caught unawares in a week that channelled Spinal Tap
Asked about the Coalition's own policy, the Prime Minister also struggled, since the whole area has now become splendidly opaque and driven by forecasts and assumptions and mechanisms which most people don't understand anyway.
A story about water buybacks that has been floating around since 2017 in various forms threatens to do that to the Coalition after both the Guardian andbrought it to the mainstream media this week.
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