Why did Labor drop a big policy change at 6pm last Friday?
While the media scrambled to get across a housing announcement late Friday, the government quietly dropped long-awaited changes to foreign student numbers.
Saturday’s edition of the Herald Sun newspaper, like other Saturday papers, carried a story with the headline $11bn housing crisis fix.
The next day, in the paper’s Sunday edition, the follow-up story was headlined Albo’s $11.3bn fraud.
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Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence. Connect with Phillip on Facebook and Twitter. Email Phillip at pcoorey@afr.com
