They love to defer to their free market ideology roots, no matter how far diverged their words and actions become.
The last decade they've been picking winners like nobody's business and yet the opposition party is, for reasons that I can't determine, impotent in pointing this out for political advantage.
The current Australian Government will do whatever it takes to secure competitive advantage for it's donors.
The endless funding to the car industry trying to prevent the inevitable was a classic example. It didn't alter things one bit.
The Greens are the closest thing to an effective opposition. Both the main parties have effectively the same policies, the same supporters (now the unions are rooted) and the same voter base.
This is just the next iteration of the Australian government trying to prop up the failing business models of their mates businesses