Comment | The Coalition’s ability to retain power while switching from leader to leader is, in political terms, a major achievement. But what are its policy achievements?
As the media and the Labour Party in the UK fulminated in recent weeks about Boris Johnson’s, back here in Abbott’s home country there was a strange, muted reaction.
Because Turnbull’s successor Scott Morrison ascended to the Liberal throne only two years ago, there’s still a lingering sense of his government as somehow being new, a sort of work-in-progress. But the calendar tells us that only a few days ago, the Liberal-National coalition celebrated the seventh anniversary of its current stint in power. Seven years in office. Three election wins in a row. It’s a substantial amount of time to hold the reins.
John Howard’s coalition government by its seventh birthday had introduced a wide-ranging set of tax reforms that included the goods and services tax, taken on the unions to make the waterfront more efficient and had joined the so-called coalition of the willing in the invasion of Iraq.
The Morrison government – let’s use that moniker to cover the Abbott and Turnbull periods as well – has brought in tax cuts and same-sex marriage, repealed carbon pricing and started on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project, although energy and climate change policy remains a vexed and confusing issue – does it believe climate change is a big problem or not? Its current position is not quite a position.
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