The retired Fat Cats of Fadden didn’t throw an imaginary life-bouy to the LNP. 52K never even bothered to vote. The mainstream media blew a smoke-screen for Dutton claiming some sort of comeback from the brink. The ALP didn’t lose a beat. The Polls, in fact, show the opposite is the case. Dutton isn’t in a less precarious holding pattern but an even greater one today,

The Opposition credits its unremarkable byelection win at the weekend in one of its safest seats almost entirely to these cost-of-living pressures, even though the self-funded retirees who inhabit the mansions on the canals in the Gold Coast electorate have benefitted handsomely from higher interest rates fattening their investments.

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Tainted cost-of-living debate needs reality check