How Bill Shorten is wedging Malcolm Turnbull at our expense

By Ross Gittins
Updated February 20 2017 - 1:13am, first published February 19 2017 - 10:14pm
Julia Gillard's version of Gonski funding was too expensive because she wouldn't countenance cuts to elite private schools. Photo: Arsineh Houspian
Julia Gillard's version of Gonski funding was too expensive because she wouldn't countenance cuts to elite private schools. Photo: Arsineh Houspian
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is getting long life out of his election year wedges. Photo: Andrew Meares
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is getting long life out of his election year wedges. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a solution to carbon emissions but can't bring it on. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a solution to carbon emissions but can't bring it on. Photo: Andrew Meares

Eighteen lobby groups ranging from the Business Council to the ACTU have pleaded with political leaders on both sides to "stop partisan antics" and reach agreement on reform of the energy market, ending all the uncertainty. Fat chance.