Turnbull's attacks on Labor will eventually cost him government
These governments never had a strategy to transition to government. Winning was all that mattered – we'll worry about what next after we've won!
John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former Liberal opposition leader.
These governments never had a strategy to transition to government. Winning was all that mattered – we'll worry about what next after we've won!
"I propose; you oppose: You propose; I oppose" is the new mantra of politics.
Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull have at least one distinguishing feature in common – they have all found the transition to government, and the processes of government, very difficult.
"What do you stand for?" What do you believe in?" Simple questions that tend to attract vague and variable answers in today's politics, here and globally.
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