Dutton makes a pitch for a values-based election victory. Phillip Coorey today. 

And this a very good point that Coorey makes. 

“Dutton, at some risk, is prepared to argue economic principle, in that the best way to lower the cost of living is to fight inflation, not to keep spending while offering “Panadol” solutions like ongoing power price discounts and student debt waivers, which mask the problem rather than address it.

“We can only escape the clutches of the cost-of-living crisis by reining in inflationary spending,” he said, warning it would require “the necessary economic surgery”.

This is a hard line to sell, more so in a culture of grievance and entitlement that has only increased since the pandemic, and Labor will be sure to jump on it.” 

Of course Labor will do that. But leaders of substance don’t shy away from what is the right thing to do. They trust, that people of substance will support them. The culture of grievance and entitlement is strangling this country. And Labor feds off that and into that and, collectively they have zero substance and that’s why they attack Dutton. 

#auspol