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Paul Bongiorno

Paul Bongiorno: Government needs to play the politics of broken promises carefully

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and PM Anthony Albanese need to tread carefully, Paul Bongiorno writes. Photo: AAP

The worst thing a government can do, according to a raft of opposition politicians and a decent whack of the commentariat, is to break an election promise.

The wailing engulfing the nation was prompted by Treasurer Jim Chalmers last week starting a “conversation” about the sustainability and fairness of the tax breaks in the current arrangements for retirement savings.

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