Buried in this week’s aged care reforms was an idea that once cost two ministers their jobs
Politics tamfitronics The late Australian playwright Alex Buzo liked to celebrate the art of tautology.For a period from the late 1970s onwards, he ran an event known as Australian Indoor Tautology Pennant, which celebrated gems uttered by public figures such as, "I don't want to sound incredulous but I just can't believe it."Rex Mossop, the (also) late Sydney rugby league caller, was a regular winner, and was often credited with popularising a phrase first used by American baseballer Yogi Berra that something was "deja vu all over again".For those with long political memories, there has been a bit of deja vu all over again in federal politics this week.That's been particularly true on the subject of aged care policy, but also on the question of the relationship between government and the Reserve Bank.Keeping partial aged...