Your honeymoon is over, PM: it's time to fill the policy vacuum

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'I had hoped, perhaps naively, that Morrison would turn his miracle into genuine good government and reform, particularly with productivity, innovation, tax and transfers, climate and energy, and relations with China and our near region.' | OPINION

When is serious government going to start in this country? I understand that Morrison was afforded a reasonable holiday period, with minimal scrutiny, to celebrate his "miracle" win. This has included several overseas trips to press the flesh with other leaders, even though these have made little headway on major global and regional challenges.

It became a choice between the lesser of two evils. Now Australians are living with “the evil of two policy lessers”. For what it’s worth, the latest Newspoll is 51/49 in the government’s favour – so little has changed. The biggest danger for Morrison is that he starts to believe his own rhetoric and favourable initial media.

There is early evidence, in terms of retail sales and business conditions and confidence, that the recent tax and interest rate cuts won’t be enough to offset our structural weaknesses and global uncertainties. The risk is a further drift toward recession as the government continues to ignore its policy inadequacies and inconsistencies.

 

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Really, why? He's just another Big Australia property shill.

His job is to maintain the status quo, for his donors have made It.

The exact same things that lost the ALP/Greens coalition the election.

I wonder what 'relation with China' means. Dependency of Australia on China is undesirable. China is rising like Hitler in the past Century, infiltrating expanding and bribing politicians to get influence. What Australia needs to do is diversify and substitute critical imports

A thinly veiled ideological attack... Served to like minded

Yep time to actually do some work instead of costing on other governments good work. Is this going to be the government to deliver us our first recession in 28 years ? It will be their fault as they have done nothing

DREAMER You got what You Voted For

Morrison and his team have done an amazing job, congrats to all.

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