Dumb, dumb and dumber: The moment Peter Dutton jumped the shark

The idiom “jumping the shark” is well-known, referring to the 1977 episode of the American sitcom Happy Days, in which the character of Fonzie jumps over a live shark while on waterskis.

On Thursday, the Liberal leader Peter Dutton unleashed his inner Henry Winkler.

Waterskiing into the election with no pants and a leather jacket, he announced his “aspiration” to index income thresholds with no firm plans as to when he would actually do this.

“I want to see us move as quickly as we can as a country to changes around personal income tax, including indexation, because bracket creep, as we know, is a killer in the economy,‘’ Mr Dutton told The Australian newspaper.

“It stifles productivity and ­entrepreneurialism and hard work, but we need to do it at a time where the budget can afford to do so. It would be an aspiration of our g...
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