I can still remember when Beazley was talking about the GST "Roll Back" and how the newly elected Dutton howled about what a terrible idea it would be.

Fast Forward to 2018 and now Dutton wants to "roll back" the GST on electricity prices - the ones his party helped push up by privatisation and the abandoning of Government responsibility for the continuing security of public utilities.

Leaving it to "the Market" certainly worked.

His undertaker-like demeanour will come in handy to preside over the funeral of the Liberal Party.

Rache

Exactly.

...His undertaker-like demeanour will come in handy to preside over the funeral of the Liberal Party....

Now if by some similar stroke of luck, the Labor Party implode in the same way, we will all be rid of the two party oligarchy and Democracy may have a chance of survival.

I can only reflect on the mediation skills of John Howard who kept this warring bunch together for years - the broad church that is clearly a group of people with little in common. Also I reflect on the difference between Queenslanders and the rest of us. They seriously believe Dutton can save the next election. Meanwhile, there will be jubilation in Labor ranks tonight if Dutton gets up today.

What an interesting collection of responses! I see the rot in the Liberal Party starting with John Howard (has that man no shame?) and his success in driving moderates and 'wets' out of the Liberal Party. Where are the Bruce Baird and Petro Georgiou replacements?
The rot was continued by Tony Abbott with his dogma, "the duty of the Opposition is to oppose", and the way he destroyed civil discourse in Parliament as he pursued Craig Thompson and Peter Slipper with the intention of driving either out of the House of Reps and forcing Gillard to an election.
The rot has been maintained by the Murdoch papers. either exaggerating or fabricating stories against Turnbull and his group of so-called moderates. It is not a coincidence that the recent campaign of destabilisation of Turnbull started when Murdoch returned recently to the country of his birth but not his current citizenship. [continued]

I agree with comments that public utilities should never have been privatised, and that the privatisation of electricity generation and transmission should be wound back forthwith.
It is in the DNA of the LNP to look after the 1% at the expense of the 99%. They will not change until they have had 2 or 3 complete terms in opposition and they have had a transfusion of central thinking where, as a result, they have resolved to govern this country for all Australians. Until there has been this change, our country would be better off in the care of the centralist of the ALP. As they showed in the GFC they are better economic managers than the Coalition and deserve a chance to repair the Australian society and our economy.