Dutton the wrecker: that’s the label he risks being stuck with

Anthony Albanese has consciously changed the way Labor governs. But Peter Dutton doesn’t want to change the way the Liberal and National parties oppose. One man is trying to exorcise the ghosts of the past while the other wants to revive them.

Albanese is mindful that the government in which he served as a senior minister between 2007 and 2013 lost policy arguments it should have won by releasing ambitious reform plans without first preparing the public. Then it retreated when vested interests complained. Dutton saw how useful those vested interests were in creating a sense of chaos that polarised public opinion, and ultimately paralysed the political system.Abbott’s magic trick was to convince Labor that it had lost control of the agenda even when it had the numbers in the Senate. It is a critical detail to bear in mind when weighing the risk Dutton took on Thursday in opposing Labor’s energy market intervention.

But Abbott’s shortcut back to power after just two terms in opposition relied on a divided Labor government, and on social and economic forces that are simply not there for Dutton. Kevin Rudd dropped the mining tax on the industry, and the public, in an election year. He lost his job before he could negotiate a deal. Julia Gillard’s first act as prime minister was to call a truce with the miners. She asked them to help design a compromise tax., which reflected on his time as an adviser in the Rudd-Gillard government. They had simply left it too late to design the mining tax, consult with industry and prepare the public “for a reform of this size”.

Albanese is still enjoying his political honeymoon. He has a clean sweep of reforms from his emissions reduction target to changes in workplace bargaining rules already passed by parliament. Rudd entered the ring with the mining companies as a weakened leader. His approval rating had crashed after he walked away from his climate change policy.

He played the 'bad cop' in interrogations presumably on his former life.

It's albosneezy who is wrecking this country big time

Dutton the Dufus

Please keep Peter as leader.. He's good, really really good.

It's one of the more diplomatic.

It's simple; the cure for high prices is high prices. You have to let the market sort itself out. If the price overshoots, every man and their dog will enter the energy sector, meaning over supply meaning lower prices.

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