'Seven years in office. Three election wins in a row. It’s a substantial amount of time to hold the reins.' | OPINION
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use that moniker to cover the Abbott and Turnbull periods as well – has brought in tax cuts and same-sex marriage, repealed carbon pricing and started on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project, although energy and climate change policy remains a vexed and confusing issue – does it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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