FULL INTERVIEW: Attorney-General Christian Porter says he has 'no doubt' Labor’s plan to add $200 billion worth of taxes into Australia’s economic system will have significant negative effects.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Porter says he tells his electorate if they did take the 'unwise' decision of voting for Labor, it would affect their day to day family finances. The Attorney-General also discussed Greens candidate Julian Burnside who is running for the Victorian seat of Kooyong. Mr Burnside has raised the issue of death taxes, which Mr Porter says proves 'how much he knows about politics and what average Australians want'.
cporterwa The biggest hit on our finances are you grubs pocketing as much as you can before being booted out,in some cases its outright larceny.
cporterwa It would
cporterwa O dear mr Porter auspol AusVotes2019
cporterwa As opposed to now where everyone's sitting pretty........
cporterwa
cporterwa None of that makes a lick of sense,more taxes = more services
cporterwa Yes. $1 Trillion debt by 2022!
cporterwa His internal polling must be looking just dandy!
cporterwa Taxes pay for services. They fund pensions schools hospitals. If everyone paid their fare share and tax minimization schemes ended we could all pay less tax.
cporterwa they are getting desperate
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Environmental activists pressure Labor on Adani coal mine | Sky News AustraliaActivists groups including GetUp have threatened to campaign against Labor at the federal election if the Opposition failed to 'pick a side' over the controversial Adani coal mine.\n\nIt is alleged that Labor frontbenchers have been provided legal advice on how to revoke Adani's approval on environmental grounds just days before the Queensland government ordered a review into the endangered black-throated finch bird.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n DebFrecklington DebFrecklington Green energy like wind and solar is cheaper than coal. This sounds like the argument of the last group of horseshoe manufacturers DebFrecklington Absolute confusion in the basket state with AnnastaciaMP at the helm.
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Business Brief: Labor franking credit proposal 'already impacting' market | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Your Money host Peter Switzer has weighed in on a mediocre reporting season but says Opposition leader Bill Shorten's franking credits policy has caused a surprising stir in the market.\n\nMr Switzer says the Labor's franking credits policy has several companies paying 'special big dividends', which are then being spent on further shares because interest rates remain so low.\n\nLabor's policy seeks to close a loophole that gives tax-payer funded handouts to wealthy share investors for excess 'franking credits', which are credits that allow Australian companies to pass on tax paid at the company level to shareholders.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n Very concerning great that will help the deficit seems like a good idea OMG NO Petty bourgeois trash UNIVERSITY radicals are PETTY BOURGEOIS FILTH anti -Marxism which is based 100% for of BY, the working class MOVEMENT !
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Labor promises support for bank-battling farmers | Sky News AustraliaThe federal Opposition will force banks to seek pre-approval from a regulator before evicting farmers from their own land under the party's election pitch announced on Sunday.\n\nBill Shorten says Labor ‘will put farmers back on top when it comes to dealing with the banks.’\n\nThe Opposition Leader also unveiled a package to aid farmers battling the banks, which would boost compensation for non-financial losses from $5,000 to $4 million. \n\nImage: Twitter \u002F billshortenmp \n\n\n Good idea because banks will sell at loss anyway but owners will find way out helping them is better kicking off the land liberals nationals sit on butt watch farmers walk off land So Labor announces plans to look after farmers against the banks and then the coalition a, month from election suddenly care about farmers, no wonder the nationals are on track to lose half their seats Bla Bla Bla
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WA Labor deletes social media video after Christopher Pyne parody divides opinion - 2600 | Sky News AustraliaWA Labor is moving to quash criticism after a parody music video it promoted on social media prompted a user backlash. The clip, which depicts outgoing government Minister Christopher Pyne as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, has been slammed by some Twitter users as 'spectacularly poor form' and 'disgraceful homophobic trash.' walabor 'disgraceful homophobic trash.' What a load of nonsense, it was all to do with the song you perpetually outraged numbnuts, but of course WA Labour kowtow into submission. walabor Should have included Penny Wong so as not to be seen anti gay walabor Well, if the Libs has done this to minister from the Left it would have been an outcry and demanding a sack. auspol
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