Well what do you know. The following from the article confirms that my view of the position as inferred in my posts was on the mark. Good to see that in my old age I can still think rationally lol. The following in the article confirms my perception that so far the government doesn't appear to really know what it should do.
"Contrary to the loudest voices on the right and left, Australians are a reasonable bunch – as long as they believe they are being treated reasonably. And that, for some unfathomable reason, is what the Abbott government doesn’t seem to understand.
Thus the government is bumbling and stumbling into 2014, imperilling the consensus necessary for genuine economic reform."
