If you're worried about that Baygon then the ABC ought to move Alberici to a job she can do and recruit someone, probably from outside the ABC, because they don't appear to have an economic specialists worth talking about, to do the job.

And I dispute your hypothesis that "very few policies of either the left or right of politics will stand up to scrutiny by well informed specialist journalists".

We're talking about a policy here that does withstand scrutiny, and which Bill Shorten agreed with some years ago, but he has now changed his mind for what an only be political expediency.