Australia news live: ‘arrogance’ cost Coalition power in 2022, Howard says; $843m remote services funding for Indigenous communities Anthony Albanese to make announcement in Alice Springs Friday morning.
Peter Dutton, of course, says he wants to cut the size of the federal government and has promised to slash civil service jobs in what appears to be an attempt to live up to the Howard dictum.
The voting public will no longer accept the excuse that taxes would be higher under leftwing governments as a substitute for actual tax relief under conservative ones.
That arrogant attitude cost the Liberal party in Australia dear in the 2022 election.
Central to the success of future centre-right governments will be their capacity to actually deliver on tax and smaller government – and not just talk.
