(Shirley Bond, now finance critic for the Liberal Opposition)
"What that tells me is that there is an effort to try to deliver promises, but there is a significant concern about how they are going to pay for them," she told reporters at the Legislature in Victoria.

A refreshingly on-point comment, as opposed to they-say-white we-say-black.

Promises like rent rebates rate as election click-bait.  Andrew Weaver has it right when he says it doesn't help nearly enough, poses the possibility landlords will just skim it, and could be spent far more productively in alleviating the housing affordability crunch.