The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
Already a subscriber?It’s not unusual for centre-right parties to embrace business-bashing blue collar populism when it suits. The last Coalition government taxed the big banks because nobody liked them, and threatened energy companies with a “big stick” break-up. This month, the Nationals looked like co-operating with the Greens on legislation to break up big supermarkets – right-wing rustic populism teaming up with green-left populism.Thankfully, Peter Dutton put his foot down against it.
Mr Dutton should not even be dabbling with this populist slippery slope, erected on the false scaffolding that wrongly blames the supermarkets’ thin margins for the inflation outbreak. Labor has enough bad policies for the Coalition to hold to account without adding one of its own. Heavy-handed intervention to break up the big supermarkets and their supply chains would be just as likely to harm consumers.
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