The PM’s line from February – ‘well-behaved government starts today’ – is a gallows-humour joke inside his administration. Even Coalition MPs are no longer certain what they are trying to achieveTwo years in and the Abbott government remains a clamor of battle slogans in search of a policy purpose. The prime minister keeps shaping up for confected daily fights without comprehending that is exactly why he is losing the political “war”. This is the point in the three-year cycle when a functional government would be finishing the hard grind of doing what it promised at the final election and beginning the task of selling those achievements,and a few recent ambitions, at the next one.
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Source: theguardian.com