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Dutton’s slippery populist slope
The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
It’s not unusual for centre-right parties to embrace business-bashing blue collar populism when it suits. The last Coalition government taxed the big banks because nobody liked them, and threatened energy companies with a “big stick” break-up. This month, the Nationals looked like co-operating with the Greens on legislation to break up big supermarkets – right-wing rustic populism teaming up with green-left populism.
Coalition going down the wrong aisle on supermarkets. Dominic Lorrimer
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