Confidential Daily Comment
Pitiful Power Promises
The best promises for a politician are those where the outcome cannot be measured. That sums up Labor's approach to power prices.
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You know a government is floundering when they announce big and expensive policies, the impact of which will be scarcely measurable.
It’s akin to saying 'trust us, if we didn’t do it things would be much worse than they are'.
The COVID response was a case in point.
How many deaths were really avoided will never be known because it was all based on modelling that has been largely discredited.