TERRY MCCRANN

more “battler suburbs” authenticity in her little finger than Mr Turnbull.

Power bills? I don’t get any in Canberra and Lucy looks after the ones in Sydney?

Congestion? Surely that can be looked after by Macquarie Bank and Transurban, with a few billion thrown the way of state governments?

And that’s how we get the debacle of poor old Josh Frydenberg’s National Energy Guarantee and the PM throwing $5 billion at Victoria to build a train line to the airport.

Both of them, exercises in combining dreadful policy with even more hopeless politics.

Just quietly PM, yes, a train line might make it easier for tourists – and new immigrants – to get into the city. In about 10 years’ time. It will do diddly squat to relieve congestion for commuters now and actually help make it worse for them then.

As for the NEG, it’s incomprehensible, apart from the fact the promise of cheaper power is beyond laughable; for so long as you and Josh Frydenberg cling to the utter stupidity of forcing more and more