Currently its a race to the bottom as to who are the better economic managers. This is probably due to the fact that governments of all colours are serving the hands that feed them rather than the hands that are voting them in.
This is more than evident in how both sides of politics has sold out our country. our assets and our future debt. We seem to be more concerned about the rats in the room rather than the elephants
Over the past twenty years lobbying in Australia has grown from a small industry of a few hundred employees to a multi billion dollar a year industry. According to Lobbying in Australia there are more than 1,000 lobbyists in Canberra. Over $1 billion is spent lobbying the Federal and State governments in what has become an industry in its own right. Of the 150 lobby groups analysed in Lobbying in Australia, they had more than 260 public relations officers, 2431 staff and a budget of over $713 million. More than $6 million on average for each lobby group. Over 100 organisations provided their annual budgets but many did not. Lobbyists’ finances are growing at three times the rate of inflation and staff numbers are increasing.
https://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/Library/ReferenceShare/Documents/lobbying.pdf
