Source: www.theguardian.com - Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Day 20: Hours after Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage, Michael McCormack says preference deal ‘made sense’ The prime minister was hoping the focus would be on community safety, but Clive Palmer’s shadow looms ever larger this campaign – and the confirmation of a preference deal between the Liberals and Palmer’s United Australia party dogged the Liberal’s campaign. Scott Morrison attempted to call the issue done and dusted: “That issue has run its course and principally because of the hypocrisy of the Labor party who sought to raise this as an issue.” But of course, it won’t be. It is impossible to cost this, because a Labor government, led by Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek , would not be imposing a direct carbon price on businesses. It certainly would not be imposing a carbon tax any more than Malcolm Turnbull or Scott Morrison have, because what we have decided to do, after talking exhaustively with business groups over the last 12 or 18 months, is simply adopt the safeguards mechanism introduced by Malcolm Turnbull . Did you mean to like this tweet @A_Sinodinos ? Do you agree the Liberals had a Bus of Lies? #auspol pic.twitter.com/Yg2RWbQ7vO Continue reading...
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Day 20: Hours after Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage, Michael McCormack says preference deal ‘made sense’ The prime minister was hoping the focus would be on community safety, but Clive Palmer’s shadow looms ever larger this campaign – and the confirmation of a preference deal between the Liberals and Palmer’s United Australia party dogged the Liberal’s campaign. Scott Morrison attempted to call the issue done and dusted: “That issue has run its course and principally because of the hypocrisy of the Labor party who sought to raise this as an issue.” But of course, it won’t be. It is impossible to cost this, because a Labor government, led by Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek , would not be imposing a direct carbon price on businesses. It certainly would not be imposing a carbon tax any more than Malcolm Turnbull or Scott Morrison have, because what we have decided to do, after talking exhaustively with business groups over the last 12 or 18 months, is simply adopt the safeguards mechanism introduced by Malcolm Turnbull . Did you mean to like this tweet @A_Sinodinos ? Do you agree the Liberals had a Bus of Lies? #auspol pic.twitter.com/Yg2RWbQ7vO Continue reading...
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