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| Turnbull government seizes on negative gearing report – politics live | Turnbull government seizes on negative gearing report – politics live |
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| 12.13am GMT | |
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| Release the ferrets! All the ferrets! | |
| Terrific picture from Mike Bowers of the shadow treasurer in full flight. | |
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| at 12.23am GMT | |
| 12.11am GMT | |
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| Wrong on a family blog, but I’ll share it anyway. | |
| @murpharoo the reverse ferret comes before or after the squirrel grip? | |
| 12.09am GMT | |
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| On reflection it’s not so much reversing the ferret as picking up the ferret and shoving it in the face of your opponent. | |
| I know it’s obvious but I’ll say it anyway: overstatement tends to exist in close proximity to election campaigns. The closer the campaign, the greater the tendency for over reach. | |
| Let’s cut through here. | |
| Morrison shouldn’t have presented a report that didn’t even look at the Labor policy on negative gearing as a savage condemnation of Labor’s policy. That’s any port in a storm behaviour unworthy of the office he holds. Desperate, tabloid and dumb. | |
| But this nonsense from Morrison is just garden variety intra-day political opportunism. Utegate was on a whole other level. | |
| 11.54pm GMT | |
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| Down in the courtyard, the shadow treasurer Chris Bowen is out declaring Scott Morrison is shrinking before our eyes. Bowen says Morrison needs to stop lying and release his own tax policy. | |
| This goes to Scott Morrison’s character and credibility as treasurer. | |
| Labor is busy attempting to reverse the ferret on the BIS Shrapnel report, given the consultancy has now clarified that the report being pushed by the government today is not, actually, an analysis of Labor’s negative gearing policy. | |
| Bowen is attempting to liken this episode to the Godwin Grech affair, where fakery damaged Malcolm Turnbull when he was opposition leader. | |
| 11.43pm GMT | 11.43pm GMT |
| 23:43 | 23:43 |
| Back in the Senate, the Family First senator Bob Day is now fretting about children in the Netherlands. | |
| Day says safeguards in euthanasia legislation are not safe. [Brief pause]. | |
| Nor are they guards. | Nor are they guards. |
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| 11.40pm GMT | 11.40pm GMT |
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| Word around the building is the prime minister isn’t sold on the idea of going to a double-dissolution election, despite all the groundwork the government is putting in to set one up. | |
| Various ministers, including Christopher Pyne, have been lunging out of the blocks on the double D point, presenting it as a near certainty from the government’s point of view – leading John Howard to note somewhat archly over the last couple of days that public statements about elections really should reside with prime ministers. | Various ministers, including Christopher Pyne, have been lunging out of the blocks on the double D point, presenting it as a near certainty from the government’s point of view – leading John Howard to note somewhat archly over the last couple of days that public statements about elections really should reside with prime ministers. |
| With Turnbull’s cool feet in mind, it’s interesting to read Niki Savva in the Australian today making a vigorous case for him pulling the double dissolution trigger. Just get on with it Malcolm is her analysis. | |
| If he waits and allows a double dissolution to slip away, he runs the risk that he will not be able to fully capitalise on measures to combat union corruption that will provide his trigger. | If he waits and allows a double dissolution to slip away, he runs the risk that he will not be able to fully capitalise on measures to combat union corruption that will provide his trigger. |
| He also runs the risk his tax policy and the budget will disappear into the 24-hour media vortex, and that the drumbeat will begin again after a brief respite for another new agenda for the election. There is much to fear from a long campaign but, given it is already effectively under way, there is little to gain by waiting and the campaign becomes longer still. | He also runs the risk his tax policy and the budget will disappear into the 24-hour media vortex, and that the drumbeat will begin again after a brief respite for another new agenda for the election. There is much to fear from a long campaign but, given it is already effectively under way, there is little to gain by waiting and the campaign becomes longer still. |
| Waiting will also ensure the survival through another term of most of the crossbenchers, some of whom have earned the right to spend more time at home with their families, where they can eat Maccas whenever they like and we won’t have to pay for it. | Waiting will also ensure the survival through another term of most of the crossbenchers, some of whom have earned the right to spend more time at home with their families, where they can eat Maccas whenever they like and we won’t have to pay for it. |
| Sooner rather than later, Turnbull needs to put his agenda to the people and he has to stamp his authority on the party and on the policies he puts forward. Last time I checked neither Tony Abbott nor Cory Bernardi won last year’s leadership ballot. | Sooner rather than later, Turnbull needs to put his agenda to the people and he has to stamp his authority on the party and on the policies he puts forward. Last time I checked neither Tony Abbott nor Cory Bernardi won last year’s leadership ballot. |
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| 11.26pm GMT | 11.26pm GMT |
| 23:26 | 23:26 |
| Q: Are any changes to negative gearing under consideration? Or is it in the GST ‘too hard’ basket? | Q: Are any changes to negative gearing under consideration? Or is it in the GST ‘too hard’ basket? |
| Turnbull starts with the history of the tax review. He says nothing under his prime ministership has been kicked into the long grass for political reasons. He says the government looked at the GST very carefully before determining action wasn’t worth it. He says when the government has completed the rest of the process it will let the public know. | Turnbull starts with the history of the tax review. He says nothing under his prime ministership has been kicked into the long grass for political reasons. He says the government looked at the GST very carefully before determining action wasn’t worth it. He says when the government has completed the rest of the process it will let the public know. |
| Q: Negative gearing prime minister? | Q: Negative gearing prime minister? |
| Turnbull says there are dangers rushing into policy that hasn’t been thought through. He says the government respects the intelligence of the Australian people by looking at the evidence and then making announcements. | Turnbull says there are dangers rushing into policy that hasn’t been thought through. He says the government respects the intelligence of the Australian people by looking at the evidence and then making announcements. |
| Q: So it’s still on the table? | Q: So it’s still on the table? |
| We are not going to be providing a running commentary on our own processes. | We are not going to be providing a running commentary on our own processes. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 11.38pm GMT | at 11.38pm GMT |
| 11.21pm GMT | 11.21pm GMT |
| 23:21 | 23:21 |
| The prime minister is asked whether he believes Tony Abbott when he says he didn’t leak sensitive cabinet material to the Australian. The prime minister says he isn’t interested in personalities. | The prime minister is asked whether he believes Tony Abbott when he says he didn’t leak sensitive cabinet material to the Australian. The prime minister says he isn’t interested in personalities. |
| Q: Do you believe Tony Abbott is undermining you? | Q: Do you believe Tony Abbott is undermining you? |
| My focus is on ensuring we have great jobs for our children and grandchildren ... | My focus is on ensuring we have great jobs for our children and grandchildren ... |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 11.38pm GMT | at 11.38pm GMT |
| 11.19pm GMT | 11.19pm GMT |
| 23:19 | 23:19 |
| The prime minister has bobbed up at today’s off campus event. Right now Malcolm Turnbull is extolling the benefits of walking. Walking prevents people from becoming obese. | The prime minister has bobbed up at today’s off campus event. Right now Malcolm Turnbull is extolling the benefits of walking. Walking prevents people from becoming obese. |
| 11.05pm GMT | 11.05pm GMT |
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| Once you draw a line in the sand, there are always demands for the line to be moved. It’s human nature. | Once you draw a line in the sand, there are always demands for the line to be moved. It’s human nature. |
| Cory Bernardi, still talking about people being killed because they have anorexia. | Cory Bernardi, still talking about people being killed because they have anorexia. |
| 11.03pm GMT | 11.03pm GMT |
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| Shalailah Medhora | Shalailah Medhora |
| Outside the chamber, the number of children in immigration detention has fallen to 58, according to the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, who revealed the figure during his weekly radio interview with Ray Hadley. “We’re getting the number closer to zero,” Dutton said. He acknowledged that the legal wrangling over Baby Asha will likely continue, labelling it a “stalling tactic” by lawyers. “We’re likely to be back in the high court,” Dutton said. | Outside the chamber, the number of children in immigration detention has fallen to 58, according to the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, who revealed the figure during his weekly radio interview with Ray Hadley. “We’re getting the number closer to zero,” Dutton said. He acknowledged that the legal wrangling over Baby Asha will likely continue, labelling it a “stalling tactic” by lawyers. “We’re likely to be back in the high court,” Dutton said. |
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| at 11.25pm GMT | at 11.25pm GMT |
| 11.00pm GMT | 11.00pm GMT |
| 23:00 | 23:00 |
| In the Senate, the Liberal Cory Bernardi is speaking about the “slippery slope” in the event that euthanasia laws clear the parliament. I mentioned earlier in the week there’s a cross-party group attempting to get a euthanasia bill through the parliament. He’s worried about children in the Netherlands, who he says are permitted to die under the prevailing regime in that country. Or the elderly, who may feel under pressure. Or depressed people who want to die, but then get treatment and subsequently recover. He’s speaking about a 44-year-old woman who died because she had anorexia. Euthanasia is dangerous, he says. | In the Senate, the Liberal Cory Bernardi is speaking about the “slippery slope” in the event that euthanasia laws clear the parliament. I mentioned earlier in the week there’s a cross-party group attempting to get a euthanasia bill through the parliament. He’s worried about children in the Netherlands, who he says are permitted to die under the prevailing regime in that country. Or the elderly, who may feel under pressure. Or depressed people who want to die, but then get treatment and subsequently recover. He’s speaking about a 44-year-old woman who died because she had anorexia. Euthanasia is dangerous, he says. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 11.24pm GMT | at 11.24pm GMT |
| 10.53pm GMT | 10.53pm GMT |
| 22:53 | 22:53 |
| There’s another NBN leak this morning. Earlier in the week there was an internal document suggesting delays and cost blow-outs in the rollout, now, Fairfax reports, the company building the national broadband network has “quietly trialled a new, low-cost fibre-to-the-premises technology that could achieve the speed and reliability of an all-fibre system to the home, as originally intended by Labor, but at a reduced construction price. But despite the promising results, NBN Co has so far declined to release them, as the government defends its preferred model, which relies principally on copper phone connections for the final link from the neighbourhood cabinet – or node – to the premises.” | There’s another NBN leak this morning. Earlier in the week there was an internal document suggesting delays and cost blow-outs in the rollout, now, Fairfax reports, the company building the national broadband network has “quietly trialled a new, low-cost fibre-to-the-premises technology that could achieve the speed and reliability of an all-fibre system to the home, as originally intended by Labor, but at a reduced construction price. But despite the promising results, NBN Co has so far declined to release them, as the government defends its preferred model, which relies principally on copper phone connections for the final link from the neighbourhood cabinet – or node – to the premises.” |
| I suspect we’ll hear a little of this in question time later on. | I suspect we’ll hear a little of this in question time later on. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 11.02pm GMT | at 11.02pm GMT |