It's time for the politicians to live up to the same standard of honesty that they sanctimoniously demand of business.

Time for an end to the pretence that voters can have ever more and better public services and lower taxes, to the cruelly hidden gaps in the social safety net, to the politicians’ never-ending quackery of "nation building" projects, and now, as Scott Morrison ponders what he should do with his election victory, to the damaging fiction of his government’s energy-cum-climate policy.