Opinion

Scott Morrison and the Liberal budget upends all we knew about Australian politics

Nicholas Stuart
May 16 2021 - 4:00am
Scott Morrison, the morning after delivering the 2021 budget. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Scott Morrison, the morning after delivering the 2021 budget. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Scott Morrison's in the process of reversing gravity. He's busy upending everything we think we knew about politics and, in the process, throwing away all those old economic constants - you know, things like the Liberals are tight with money while Labor spends, or the coalition slashes the public service but it bloats under Labor. It's shape-shifting with a vengeance and, at least so far, it's leaving the opposition stranded. They're still stuck on the island of the past certainty and being rapidly bypassed by the changing eddies and currents of the new Morrison unorthodoxy.

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Nicholas Stuart

Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra writer.

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