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I wished to attend till the transcript got here out as a result of I wished to incorporate the questions, and right here they’re. Josh Frydenberg was requested concerning the Victorian Liberal MP Bernie Finn right now and the state transfer to expel him from the occasion.
Frydenberg was not impressed with having to reply these questions:
Q: Ought to Bernie Finn depart? Ought to Bernie Finn depart the Liberal occasion now over his abortion feedback?
Frydenberg: It would shock you. I’m not up with each remark that Bernie Finn, as a state member of parliament, has mentioned.
Q: No, however you’re the chief of the Victorian department of the Liberal occasion and also you’d concentrate on the feedback.
Frydenberg: Properly, firstly, let me simply say this to you. Choices concerning the membership of the state parliamentary occasion might be ones which you can put to Matthew Man, to not the federal deputy chief and the treasurer and the member for Kooyong.
Q: However I’m informed the federal department been concerned on this movement.
Frydenberg: Once more, I might say on state parliamentary issues. You permit that to Matthew Man.
Q: I’ve spoken to Mr. Man.
Frydenberg: OK, good. And I’ll concentrate on the nationwide.
Q: That’s what he, that’s what he informed me.
Frydenberg: I’ll concentrate on the nationwide scene forward of the election in only a few days time.
There are 17,228,900 Australians enrolled to vote.
And a giant chunk of them need this throughout and carried out with.
Yesterday it was housing after which darts with the over-50s.
Immediately it’s housing and now tea with the over-50s
There’s a sample rising within the remaining week of Scott Morrison’s election marketing campaign. After visiting a housing property this morning, he’s assembly over-50s in Palmerston. @canberratimes pic.twitter.com/IUkRWJWIIH
— Dan Jervis-Bardy (@D_JervisBardy) May 17, 2022
Sarah Martin has your Coalition costings coated:
The Coalition says spending cuts throughout the general public sector will ship $3.3bn in financial savings to pay for its election commitments, as the federal government turns the stress on Labor to submit its plans to Treasury for costing.
The treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, and finance minister, Simon Birmingham, launched the Coalition costings in Melbourne on Tuesday, revealing that the proposed improve to the general public sector effectivity dividend and adjustments to tremendous contributions would offset the $2.3bn in new spending guarantees made by the Coalition because the starting of the election marketing campaign.
This could ship a $1bn enchancment to the finances backside line over the four-year ahead estimates interval, with $386m of this coming in 2024-24 when the deficit is forecast to be $42.5bn. Cumulative deficits over the following 4 years whole $223bn.
Albanese says local weather motion could be a Labor legacy
Josh Butler
Anthony Albanese claims that “performing on local weather” could be his “legacy” in parliament – however concurrently dominated out elevating Labor’s 43% 2030 emissions discount goal.
Requested a number of questions in a Q&A session after the Perth management breakfast, Albanese mentioned he’d take WA premier Mark McGowan to a footy recreation over Annastacia Palaszczuk if he had a spare ticket, and admitted that the previous few weeks have “appeared like a really lengthy marketing campaign”.
Labor’s local weather plan is being panned by a Coalition scare marketing campaign as a “carbon tax”. Albanese, requested what his legacy could be – win or lose on Saturday – and he sat considering for a number of seconds earlier than answering “performing on local weather”.
However requested “will you improve your local weather targets if that’s a situation of the teal independents” in a possible hung parliament, the Labor chief gave a flat and on the spot “no”.
Requested about his gaffe in forgetting the unemployment and rate of interest within the first week of the marketing campaign, Albanese admitted he was “not good”.
“I’m human and one of many issues that we have to do is to personal it. We’re not good. And I had a problem with with reminiscence recall, and I didn’t blame another person,” he mentioned.
“Will I make a mistake in the remainder of my life? In all probability. The purpose is the way you reply. That’s the important thing. Everybody makes errors.”
The Labor bus is off to a press convention with McGowan at a producing facility. Albanese is predicted to talk within the subsequent half hour, earlier than leaving WA and heading again to the east coast for the remainder of the week.
Peter Hannam
One other week, one other drop within the ANZ-Roy Morgan’s survey of shopper confidence.
This time it’s down one other 1.3% to a degree not seen since mid-August 2020. Solely New South Wales and Queensland noticed will increase.
One measure, “Time to purchase a main family merchandise”, fell 2.7%, dropping 14.7% over the previous three weeks – which in fact coincides with the excessive CPI determine on the finish of April and the following RBA charge rise on 3 Might.
ANZ’s Head of Australian Economics,David Plank, mentioned the fourth week in a row of sinking shopper sentiment was “primarily pushed by drops within the sub-indices that seize the monetary scenario in comparison with a yr in the past”.
“This implies that value of residing issues are entrance and centre for customers,” Plank mentioned. “Confidence was 2.7% decrease for individuals who personal their residence, whereas it rose 0.5% for people who find themselves renting”.
Household inflation expectations rose 0.2ppt to five.3% amid increased petrol costs, and that’s a problem for the RBA as a result of that’s what they’re making an attempt to keep away from getting uncontrolled. (Gasoline costs above $2 a litre appear more and more widespread in Sydney and Melbourne at the least – a lot for that 22.1 cent minimize within the excise.)
Buyers aren’t actually budging on the prospect of a fast run-up within the money charge. Market economists are uncertain the speed will actually rise one other 1 share level by August from 0.35% now, however that’s what buyers tip.
And noticed at Sydney Airport this morning, an “election sale”.
I’m questioning how many individuals assume, sure, 21 Might is the time for a spending spree … apart from politicians, in fact.
We’ve heard rather a lot about Aukus from Scott Morrison this marketing campaign – however what has moved on it?
Daniel Hurst experiences:
Scott Morrison’s Aukus intermediary has not lobbied any US officers because the landmark safety deal was introduced, regardless of a earlier settlement with the prime minister “to have interaction with US personnel to facilitate Australia’s engagement with US and UK per Aukus settlement”, based on a newly filed doc.
Prof Donald Winter, a former US navy secretary, was serving because the prime minister’s particular adviser on naval shipbuilding when the deal to allow Australia to entry America’s nuclear-propelled submarine know-how was revealed.
A brand new submitting to the US international lobbying register exhibits that, because the Aukus announcement, Winter has obtained about $62,560 from Australia’s Division of the Prime Minister and Cupboard for “consultations re shipbuilding”.
Paul Karp
Scott Morrison has spoken to Combine 104.9 in Darwin, concerning the change in chief minister from Michaela Gunner to Natasha Fyles and different native points.
Morrison mentioned he had congratulated Fyles and can work with the Northern Territory authorities, however urged voters to “assist the [Country Liberal party] make the territory stronger” on the federal election. Requested about crime in Alice Springs, Morrison pointed to a $14m funding in packages together with youth early intervention packages.
He mentioned:
We’d like the territory authorities to get on prime of legislation and order points within the territory … We’re keen to be a companion.
Morrison was additionally grilled on why petrol costs don’t appear to be coming down, regardless of the federal government halving the petrol tax within the finances, a minimize of 22c per litre.
Morrison claimed there are “sturdy legal guidelines” to forestall petrol stations pocketing the financial savings and never passing them on to customers, warning they “could be prosecuted” – however the enforcement resolution was tremendous imprecise, he requested territorians to report “particular bowser costs” to the competitors regulator. Costs “will transfer round – they go up and down”, he mentioned.
Simply talking for myself – I’m unsure how an individual on the petrol bowser can inform if costs drop for a bit then improve whether or not they’ve truly obtained the good thing about the tax minimize or been scammed.
Scott Morrison is now showing on the Seven Community’s morning present (that is minutes after he appeared on the 9 Community’s morning present).
And he’s as soon as once more defending the Coalition’s housing coverage. Requested concerning the criticism of financial analysts that the coverage will drive up costs, Morrison says:
Analysts normally personal their very own houses. I’m making an attempt to assist folks purchase houses, it was laborious 30 years in the past, and it’s more durable now. It’s actually essential that folks have decisions about find out how to use their very own cash. We’re making certain that after you have used your tremendous to put money into your individual residence, after you promote your private home down the monitor, or maybe in case you select to refinance, then you may pay it again into your superannuation, however what you set into it, and the capital progress you had, and that’s all tax-free, it’s a good funding in your superannuation, get you into the housing market early. Once you get to the top of your retirement, if you don’t personal your individual residence, then you don’t personal your individual residence, then you might be worse off, so this permits us to attain two targets, stronger retirement financial savings, and making certain that Australians can personal their very own houses sooner with their very own cash, not having the federal government personal your own home.
(Technically the financial institution owns your private home.)
Albanese says his ‘twin’ political targets are ‘social good and financial progress’
Josh Butler
Anthony Albanese has begun his speech to enterprise leaders in Perth. The Labor chief mentioned his “twin targets” in politics had been “social good and financial progress”.
Australia wants a plan to create an financial system the place we’ve got excessive wage jobs and we’ve got financial progress with out growing inflation.
Our financial system is crying out for management and reform – however getting neither.
Barely two minutes into his speech, Albanese poured reward on his “good buddy” the Western Australia premier, Mark McGowan, speaking up his “true character and true management”. In a spot as parochial as Perth, each Albanese andScott Morrison have been tripping over themselves to plug their hyperlinks to the Emperor of WA.
The one gripe I’ve with Mark McGowan is that he has set a bar that may’t presumably be reached by these of us who’re looking for to win an election.
Albanese talked up Labor’s morning announcement of $1.5bn for medical manufacturing beneath its Nationwide Reconstruction Fund.
Australians ought to have the ability to entry medicines, vaccines and medical provides after we want them. We can not afford our well being and wellbeing to be hostage to international provide chains.
However greater than that, we’ve got medical innovation and world-class science taking place proper right here.
Albanese talked up Australia’s document in producing scientific breakthroughs, however criticised the Morrison authorities’s settings which he claimed “commercialise that science as poorly as any nation within the OECD”.
He additionally introduced a joint funding dedication with the McGowan state authorities to commit $50m for an Aboriginal cultural centre in Perth, encouraging enterprise leaders on the breakfast to additionally be part of the mission.
This has the potential to be an essential place to have a good time First Nations cultures. To recognise that our continent is residence to the oldest steady tradition on earth. A spot for studying and for sharing.
Coalition’s tremendous for housing coverage ‘knowledgeable by Treasury evaluation’, PM says
Paul Karp
Scott Morrison is talking to Channel 9’s Immediately Further concerning the Coalition coverage to permit first residence patrons to withdraw as much as $50,000 from tremendous for housing.
Morrison mentioned the coverage is “knowledgeable by Treasury evaluation” which is curious as a result of for 2 days now he has refused to launch modelling underpinning his declare that it’ll have solely a “marginal” impression on costs.
Earlier, Morrison deflected a query at his doorstop in Zuccoli (within the Northern Territory) by saying the treasurer had addressed the problem.
Josh Frydenberg has mentioned the coverage permits first residence patrons entry to a complete of $5bn of tremendous. The coverage will facilitate them to purchase $100bn of housing.
Morrison informed Immediately Further the coverage had been labored on for “many months”:
It has been fastidiously thought by way of and knowledgeable by Treasury evaluation. The important thing level is the toughest factor to do when shopping for a house is to get that deposit … There have been about 164,000 first-home patrons final yr. That’s up from across the degree of 100,000. Our insurance policies are getting folks houses nevertheless it’s getting harder. That’s why we predict they need to have the ability to have entry to their very own cash. It’s theirs! They saved it. They earned it by way of their superannuation. And the place it may well assist them get into that first residence, they need to have the selection about that.
However be aware the Coalition coverage requires folks to pay again into superannuation once they promote.
Morrison was additionally grilled about why the federal government hasn’t met its targets for incapacity housing. He promised to “double down” on the targets and pursue them “enthusiastically”.
