2018, the year of governing badly
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Looking back on the federal politics of 2018, voters can conclude they’ve been given a rough trot.
What’s been dubbed “the permanent election campaign” to which we are subjected these days is a curse. Too often it encourages expedient rather than sound decisions and ugly behaviour dominated by noise and stunts.
Added to that,...