And so the new parliamentary year begins:
Tony Abbott says the result in today’s Newspoll shows the next election is winnable for the government, as long as it “sharpens” the policy difference with Labor.
“It is good that government ministers from the Prime Minister down are on the front foot against Labor, pointing out the fact that if Shorten were to win the election you would have the Greens in charge of social policy, you would have the unions in charge of economic policy,” Mr Abbott told Sydney radio station 2GB.
“But what we need to do also is complement that by sharpening up our difference.
“The point I keep making is we can dramatically take the pressure of power prices if we build a new coal-fired power station and end the emissions obsessions, that is every bit as necessary as Snowy 2.0.
“The other thing we can do is boost wages and make housing more affordable if we are prepared to scale back immigration quite substantially because at the moment our cities are choking.”
Pure One Nation base pitch. One wonders if Abbott running as outrider to Turnbull might not work to dupe ON voters back into the fold. Seems to be working so far:
