Tim Lester

That's simple.

This is a breach of faith.

And so the opposition will go that for all their worth and try and make damage from its stick.

The calculation that the Prime Minister is making, and no doubt...

his cabinet behind him, is that if they can sell to the Australian people that, look, we changed our minds, but it was right that we change our minds and that's actually an asset.

If you're not stubborn on these things and you give it due consideration and you see that you were wrong before, you change your mind and you do the right thing.

It's not that easy a sell, but over time, that's what they're banking on doing.

And it's an important one for them.

So it's a real political tussle now over this.

Are they just outright liars like all politicians, that fashionable idea?

Or no, did they really consider this and make a change that ultimately we'll all be glad they made?

Well, if they can't establish that it was worth doing, it was worthwhile, and that things, Australians, are better as a result, and that, as they call it, intergenerational equity is closer to achieve than it was when they started, then they've got a problem.

They'll be out to...

to make any of the gains they can get in terms of young Australians finding it a bit easier to get into a home.

They'll be out to play them up for all they're worth.

But that's a tough job because, of course, we don't know how things would have gone

If they'd pressed ahead with these policies, we don't know where that would have wound up.

So it's difficult to explain that there's been progress because it's fairly likely that Australians will still feel there's a problem there because there are no easy solutions here.

This is a really tough one.

I think it could be, and they're banking on it being that, but it's a slow burn in politics, those kind of things.