The Challenge at the moment is that the Libs have used the sky is falling approach to marketing the need for change, whereas the need is more subtle, something none of our current politicians, especially Abbott, is capable delivering.
There are clear structural issues in the Aus economy that need to be fixed but as usual everybody is happy to see those repairs as long as it doesn't affect them. Our medicare costs will continue to grow exponentially with various lobby groups wanting to extend the services provided, education costs continue to blow out, our aging population needs more shit, our wage growth has grown faster than productivity - the result being companies are closing down operations. The country has come to be one of two speeds with mining hiding a variety of ills.
The response currently from Labor has been "there isn't a problem" and "if" there is an accepted problem the response varies from "let the rich pay" to "lower social welfare costs" to "require companies to pay their "fair share"" to "reduce the size of government" etc etc which ever one of the above you prefer is generally dependant on where you are in the economy and where the relevant politician gets his votes.
So everytime any government tries to change the structural stuff someone whines.
So now we have complaints about negative gearing, somehow claiming the costs of holding an investment
is wrong, but no one seems to think it is wrong to tax the capital growth on that investment. To me if you want to tax the profit, you need to be able to claim the costs.
We also have had previous governments encouraging workers to plan for their retirements, but now the "encouragement" is too generous, meh