Voters voted for the real deal, not the cross-dressing political party

They have even put Australia’s credit rating at risk as the debts rise.

And there was a campaign to blacken the name of the Opposition leader.

The LNP’s nuclear program, inevitable if the electricity grid is to be decarbonized, was represented as a tax on Australians that would lead to cuts to services rather than an asset that would make a return.

The investment of $120 billion was inflated to $600 billion, on the basis of a dodgy research report, when the cost of the government’s decarbonization strategy stood at $7-9 trillion [this has been corrected from "billiion" to "trillion], based on research backed by the Australian Conservation Council.

The Dutton Coalition response to the government’s policies, with the exception of nuclear and arguably defence, was to copy them. Raise Medicare expenditure? We’ll match it.

At the end of the day the reason for voting for the Coalition was that they would give you a tax rebate of $1,200 and temporarily lower petrol excise by 25 cents. That was the final election day message they delivered.

They forgot to say they would also raise taxes to pay for their defence promises.

So here we had the party of smaller government promising larger government, and Labor-lite.

They got what they deserved. But is this what Australia deserves?