It was less than a week ago that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton branded Labor’s cost-of-living policies, including $300 energy bill rebates, counterproductive “sugar hits” that simply made inflation worse.
“People are smarter than that. They realise that what it’s doing is keeping their mortgage rates higher for longer,” he told ABC radio on Monday.
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Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
