Dutton’s back-to-basics approach on economics offers a sharp contrast to Labor’s bigger government record of the past three years, but policy proposals are scant.
Peter Dutton’s economic platform is big on principles and small on policies, and that’s unlikely to change before the election.
Dutton has no intention of “going big” from opposition in the manner of Liberal leader John Hewson’s 15 per cent GST tax reform package in the 1993 “unlosable” election, or Bill Shorten’s failed tax-and-spend gambit in 2019.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
