QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT:
WHAT WE LEARNED
* 292 people have now been taken off Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in the United States.
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WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN
News that makes sense
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Tax cuts give people incentive to get ahead and aspire to greater things.
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WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Why the government won't support Labor's fairer income tax cuts
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THEY SAID WHAT
"This privileged elite opposite, they want to keep the workers in their place." - Malcolm Turnbull on Labor.
"How was it fair that under this arrogant and out of touch PM a property developer in Arncliffe earning $1 million will get a tax cut of over $7000 a year, while a worker in a charcoal chicken shop in the same suburb will only get a tax cut of $10." - Labor's Jenny Macklin.
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TWEETED
@terrimbutler The PM criticises Labor MPs for not having enough blue-collar experience & being, as he said, "educated", and simultaneously claims we don't understand aspiration. #qt
