The latest monthly ReachTEL result for Sky News records Labor’s two-party lead at 52-48, down from 54-46 a month ago. The Coalition are up two on the primary vote to 36%, Labor is down one to 35%, the Greens are steady on 10% and One Nation are down one to 6%. On the forced response preferred prime minister question, Malcolm Turnbull now leads 54.5-45.5, out from 52.3-47.7 last time.
Stay tuned for a post on the by-election that now looms in the seat of Perth, following Tim Hammond’s surprise retirement announcement.
Davidwh @ #100 Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 – 10:50 pm
Full redundancy too.
But that old data may well be archived. Even so, multiple copies at different sites should be required.
CBA?
zoomster @ #49 Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 – 4:36 pm
If the newspaper defamed her then the court has done more so.
The implication I got from the original story was that Mirabella pushed past McGowan so she could be next to Wyatt in a photo, while from the court case she actively prevented Wyatt from having a photo taken with McGowan.
A case of the reality being worse than the perceived slight.
The only person who can truly walk away from court with their integrity intact seems to be Wyatt.
From reading the Buzzfeed article, it does not appear the original data (statements) was lost. Rather the CBA has lost tapes containing backups of that data, and also some tape drives. It appears the old backup tapes and drives were being sent out for destruction and the contractor (Fuji?) lost them. Fell off the back of the truck? Apparently!
Tape drives don’t contain the data. They’re like your old cassette recorder, the music is on the cassette tape.
Problem was made worse because the backups were not encrypted ( another serious oversight).
CIO needs to be reprimanded. Off site backup tapes of such sensitive data should ALWAYS be encrypted.
Katharine Murphy slamming the Abbott decision.
It will be interesting how many other journalist pen similar pieces.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2018/may/02/andrew-probyn-was-right-about-abbott-and-impartiality-isnt-ignoring-the-facts
It looks like she may have run out of excuses.
I wonder what her lawyers will try next?
Hopefully she’ll be back in Oz to face the music soon.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/alleged-australian-child-abuser-to-face-extradition-in-israel-this-month
This is for anyone/everyone who knows more about v0ting preferences than me where preference party is selected.
courtesy of google,1560 people rushed to get on electoral roll due to the S S m postal referendum.
Age as per voting is given as yes vote per age group 18+ 61% then going down to 52& aged 50 &dropping to 48% after 65years.Does this give a guide to how they will vote at next election. With out knowing much about it my guess is that as younger people are at fore front of the under paid &jobless I would think they might back labour, that is if they bother to vote. having asked some of my grand children (who were already enrolled ),except 0ne. They all said they would vote against the N L P &also had a hate of O N. But then they know I back labour. Some other people I talked to , mostly in there 20s mostly indicated the were unhappy with the present mob. I did not ask how they voted but said how I voted so maybe they were just agreeing with me. If a large number of younger voters who have never voted before go one way or another I would assume it could clinch electorates with low margins in some way. Have any of the pollsters ever considered this or I wonder if W B has any ideas about this this.
“Katharine Murphy slamming the Abbott decision”
Murphy thought Abbott an outstanding opposition leader when he was leading a destructive campaign against Gillard (probably the most extreme and nastiest in Australian political history). Katharine only cares about Malcolm, hence her support for Probyn.
That reminds me of a couple of interesting questions and I’m wondering if the psephs around here will have a go at it.
Supposedly the SSM “vote” caused a surge of enrolments from younger people.
Does this mean that more young people will be enrolled at the election later this year, or has it simply brought forward enrolments that were going to happen prior to this coming election?
The other question is, to the extent that there might be more younger voters at the next election, has this effect been taken into account by the polls? Or do the pollsters have weightings that are out of date?
The Daily Telegraph have a “hilarious” front page of a photo of Macron and Turnbull, with Macron’s head transposed with the head of a cartoon character and the headline ” Pepe Le Pew”.
I would have found it amusing if they had instead transposed Turnbull’s head with that of another cartoon character and headlined it “Goofy”.
Does anyone have the photo shopping skills?
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
In breaking news Cambridge Analytica is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-firm-center-facebook-privacy-183414209.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=69f70237-124f-3ea9-acd0-fc922af945e2&.tsrc=notification-brknews
Peter Martin explains how Morrison’s budget will break the most important promise contained in the Charter of Budget Honesty.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/promises-promises-why-the-budget-will-break-the-most-important-one-20180502-p4zcup.html
Another fine effort by CBA!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/almost-20-million-bank-account-records-lost-by-commonwealth-bank-20180502-p4zd02.html
Karen Maley tells us how the AMP board closed ranks behind Catherine Brenner two years ago when it was appointing a new chairman, choosing her over the far more highly regarded and qualified candidate Andrew Mohl. It’s quite a scathing article.
https://outline.com/T2VuXw
James Kirby says you have to wonder if there is any sincere change of heart among bank bosses, even after the royal commission revelations.
https://outline.com/EApmCN
ANZ expects the banking royal commission, which will examine business lending during its next round of hearings, to probe its treatment of farmers following the Landmark acquisition during the financial crisis.
https://outline.com/mPb2Mr
Alan Fels says that the banking royal commission needs more time to get to the rotten core.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/banking-commission-needs-more-time-to-get-to-the-rotten-core-20180502-p4zcv5.html
If this doesn’t give you the shits nothing will!
https://outline.com/qCPhFc
Shorten will insist that workers on low and middle incomes are the biggest winners from any personal tax cuts in next week’s budget, as he sets a key test to ensure the changes gain swift approval in Parliament.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-flags-support-for-income-tax-cuts-signals-halt-to-more-revenue-increases-20180502-p4zcw6.html
The more one knows about Trump the worse he gets.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/harold-bornstein-former-trump-doctor-now-frightened-and-sad-20180503-p4zd08.html
Dr Harold Bornstein has admitted that the president dictated his own health report. But he’s just one case of collateral damage in Trump’s war on truth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/02/trumps-doctor-is-a-warning-to-all-the-footsoldiers-and-loyal-colluders-itll-come-back-to-bite-you
Damning new evidence of corruption has emerged in Australia’s worst single bribery case as Labor vows to introduce the toughest anti-graft regime ever faced by corporate Australia. There is so much corporate malfeasance being exposed that Shorten could come up with a telling strategy to differentiate Labor even further.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-anti-corruption-regime-failing-as-shorten-promises-better-20180502-p4zcxw.html
This music teacher explains idiot Andrew Lamming’s ideas on teachers’ working conditions.
https://www.smh.com.au/education/a-38-hour-week-for-teachers-bring-it-on-20180502-p4zcuw.html
Peter FitzSimons on Bomber Thompson’s fall from grace and how it typifies the downward spiral after some elite athletes retire.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/mark-thompson-s-tale-a-perfect-example-of-sport-s-downward-spiral-20180502-p4zcz1.html
Tony Featherstone wonders if big banks are too big to govern and explores some different governance models.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/are-banks-too-big-for-boards-to-govern-20180501-p4zcqs.html
John Warhurst is mightily pissed off with Australia’s acquiescence in awarding the head of the modern commonwealth to British monarchy.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/commonwealth-head-prince-charles-and-royal-family-business-20180502-p4zcya.html
Tony Abbott’s political future could be under threat from a group of activists who have been organising environmentally conscious voters to join Liberal party branches on Sydney’s north shore – a move that could unseat the former prime minister. PLEASE!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/03/environmentally-conscious-liberals-urged
AMP’s largest shareholder has broken its silence on the scandal ridden Australian finance company expressing its shock and disappointment at the revelations made during the royal commission into financial services.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/surprising-disappointing-amp-s-largest-shareholder-breaks-silence-20180502-p4zcxr.html
And AMP is facing an accelerating exodus of financial planners from its network in the wake of the past fortnight’s shredding of its reputation over its treatment of customers and dealings with the corporate regulator.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/amp-to-lose-planners-as-reputation-sinks-to-unprecedented-low-20180502-p4zcut.html
Michael West writes that big business has a problem. Its message is no longer cutting through. The banking Royal Commission has put its campaign for corporate tax cuts on a knife edge and its peak lobby group, Business Council of Australia, is ramping up its already heavy spending on propaganda.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-bca-fake-pub-tests-and-the-impending-propaganda-blitz/
Senior Australian Catholics have warned that marriage equality should not be a matter of “winner takes all” five months after unsuccessfully advocating a no vote in the postal survey which led to its legalisation.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/02/catholics-warn-against-winner-takes-all-approach-on-marriage-equality
Comprehensive new data released days before the May budget and amid a high-stakes political debate over the Coalition’s stalled $65 billion plan shows cuts passed by Parliament in 2015 encouraged investment but had no distinct effect on wages.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/half-the-australian-businesses-that-got-a-tax-cut-have-banked-the-cash-20180502-p4zcuo.html
Bill Shorten says a Labor government would pursue a “root and branch” review of Australia’s welfare payments after a leading economist called for Newstart to be increased by $50 a week.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/02/newstart-embarrassingly-inadequate-and-history-will-judge-us-economist-says
Michelle Grattan tells us about The Greens planning to bring in “a Buffett rule” to ensure higher income earners pay their fair share of tax by limiting deductions made by those earning more than A$300,000.
https://theconversation.com/greens-urge-buffett-rule-to-get-more-tax-from-high-income-earners-95892
A comedian made fun of Donald Trump and his inner circle and sections of the liberal U.S. news media wet themselves with anxiety. As political editor Dr Martin Hirst explains, it means the news establishment is losing its grip on reality.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/michelle-wolf-deserves-a-pulitzer-prize-for-shaming-the-news-establishment,11457
Why Facebook’s new dating app could easily destroy Tinder and OKCupid
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/finance-news/2018/05/02/facebook-dating-app-destroy-tinder-okcupid/
Lawyers have warned the federal government’s proposed identity-matching regime could target jaywalkers and litterbugs while making Australians vulnerable to a Chinese-style surveillance system
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lawyers-warn-peter-dutton-s-facial-recognition-regime-could-target-jaywalkers-litterbugs-20180502-p4zczc.html
SA Premier Steven Marshall’s honeymoon may be over today, as a new-look Parliament sits for the first time since the election and a fresh Government is pressure-tested.
https://outline.com/EEv8ag
The move to give NSW women the right to access abortion clinics free from harassment has received a significant boost, with Labor and National MPs agreeing to co-sponsor legislation to establish exclusion zones around clinics.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/anti-abortion-protesters-face-jail-time-under-new-safe-access-bill-20180501-p4zcqw.html
Australia will not achieve its emissions reductions targets until it ends the “culture war” on climate policy, Labor frontbencher Mark Butler has said.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/02/labor-says-australia-will-fail-on-emissions-targets-unless-climate-culture-war-ends
The Turnbull government has been accused of trying to steal credit for a state-backed solar deal by failing to invite the Victorian government to a ceremony with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron. Shameless!
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/victorian-government-furious-as-turnbull-takes-credit-for-french-solar-deal-20180502-p4zcu0.html
More nice bikies!
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/shooting-beating-and-blackmail-melbourne-businessman-targeted-by-comanchero-bikies-court-hears-20180502-p4zd03.html
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe and Turnbull’s “dandruff” moment.
I love this one from Matt Golding!
Mark David and a rather uncomfortable Turnbull.
Two more little rippers from Mark.
Glen Le Lievre and living on the paltry Newstart allowance.
Mark Knight on the Victorian budget.
Down “below” with Fiona Katauskas.
Peter Broelman and an upstaged Turnbull.
Sometimes Zanetti just can’t help himself.
Jon Kudelka on government with a majority.
Good work from David Pope on “Planet B”.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html
Jon Kudelka on Tim Hammond’s departure.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/8ca3eb0e4f0da8645d42573c9343098c
More in here – Cathy Wilcox in particular.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/best-of-fairfax-cartoons-april-3-2018-20180502-h0zjyx.html
Ty Cobb — Trump’s top lawyer in Mueller probe — just revealed he’s abandoning ship
White House attorney Ty Cobb, who had taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling, confirmed to the New York Times on Wednesday that he is retiring.
“It has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House,” he said. “I wish everybody well moving forwards”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/ty-cobb-trumps-top-lawyer-mueller-probe-just-revealed-hes-abandoning-ship/
Up early BK thank you just caught me as i was going to bed here in Johannesburg
Giuliani vows Trump interview will be ‘2-3 hours max’ after failing to shut down Mueller investigation
Two weeks after vowing to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s interview with investigators will be a “maximum” of two to three hours.
After taking a job as an attorney for the president two weeks ago, Giuliani said that he expected to be able to shutdown Muellers Russian investigation within one to two weeks
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/giuliani-vows-trump-interview-will-2-3-hours-max-failing-shut-mueller-investigation/
Trump claims ‘absolute immunity’- asks court to toss foreign payments suit
President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by refusing to separate himself from his business empire while in office, claiming “absolute immunity.”
The lawsuit, filed by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, accused Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution’s “emoluments” clause that bars U.S. officials from accepting gifts or other payments from foreign governments without congressional approval. The same clause also bars the President from receiving gifts and payments from individual states
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/trump-claims-absolute-immunity-asks-court-toss-foreign-payments-suit/
Ex-reality TV contestant who accused Trump of assault just subpoenaed key ‘Apprentice’ videos
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/ex-reality-tv-contestant-accused-trump-assault-just-subpoenaed-key-apprentice-videos/
Fox News analyst refuses to sugarcoat Cobb departure: Trump ‘finally recognizes how serious’ Mueller probe is
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/fox-news-analyst-refuses-sugarcoat-cobb-departure-trump-finally-recognizes-serious-mueller-probe/
What a laugh the NewsCorpse editorial room must have had as they commissioned the front page of the Daily ToiletPaper today. Some apparently wet their pants, whilst others beamed in the knowledge that they controlled the agenda and discourse of Australia’s biggest city.
“We’ll show that Frog how we can smear and humiliate anyone who we want! Rupert will be so proud of us, we are made in his image!”
Don’t know if this has been posted previously but whatever they are smoking, injecting or ingesting I want some…
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/02/the-universe-is-an-egg-and-the-moon-isnt-real-notes-from-a-flat-earth-conference
Cambridge Analytica Files for Bankruptcy After Misuse of Facebook Data
The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease most operations and file for bankruptcy amid growing legal and political scrutiny of its business practices and work for President Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-shut-down.html
Robert Mueller and Co. are playing hardball
President Trump and his allies in the House have done just about anything they can to undermine Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation and intimidate its leaders. They’ve questioned the Mueller team’s neutrality. They’ve wrongly suggested the investigation was launched based on the Steele dossier or the leaking of classified information. They’ve attacked the FISA court process. James B. Comey was fired. Andrew McCabe was targeted and later fired. And there have been threats to get rid of basically everyone else in charge of it, including most recently Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
Mueller, it seems, isn’t cowed. Neither, for that matter, is Rosenstein.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/02/robert-mueller-and-co-are-playing-hardball/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.295442cae90b
If Ms Banks owns her own home and a car, has a wardrobe full of clothes and no outstanding home maintenance problems, then $40 per day for a few weeks would be fine.
These MPs really have no idea what long-term unemployment can be like.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/welfare/2018/05/02/liberal-julia-banks-newstart/
Ecuador has cut off Assange’s internet access and is denying him visitors:
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/europe/he-s-cut-off-from-everybody-pamela-anderson-fears-for-assange-20180503-p4zd0b.html
Funny how people initially take him up with enthusiasm and then turn on him…
btw, love this: “He’s so misunderstood, especially in Hollywood, and really hated, because of the Clinton monopoly on the media.”
‘More than half of small Australian businesses that received a corporate tax cut under the first tranche of the Turnbull government’s flagship economic policy banked the extra cash…’
‘…encouraged investment but had no distinct effect on wages.’
‘The figures show 51 per cent of businesses banked the cash, 27 per cent lifted their investment, 19 per cent hired more workers, and 3 per cent raised wages. The average tax cut was worth $2940.’
‘… firms with a turnover of between $1.5 million and $2 million increased their investment by 2.45 per cent, while firms that did not receive the tax cut lifted investment by 1.53 per cent.’
So if we give the bigger businesses a tax cut, does this mean it will only lift investment by 1%?
’34 per cent of a further 500 businesses it surveyed had no idea they had received a reduction in their company tax rate…’
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/half-the-australian-businesses-that-got-a-tax-cut-have-banked-the-cash-20180502-p4zcuo.html
lizzie
Rent is the absolute killer. Part of the big down side of the over priced property market. Send ms Banks out on $40 a day and have to rent and see how she goes.
Justin Langer new Australian cricket coach
Nice move by Shorten on tax cuts.
If they’re targeted to high income earners only it’s No Go.
If they’re in the zone, then he shares the glory (and can even claim some of it – for keeping Turnbull on the straight and narrow).
Either way it looks like he’s already running the show.
Julia Banks can live on $40 a day, in the knowledge that she can at any time fall back on the 5 properties she owns
Morning all. Thanks BK. Given that Cambridge Analytica was by all account very well paid, and presumably profitable, the bankruptcy sees dubious. I wonder under what new name the same people intend to carry on doing the same thing?
Speak8ng of Liberal ministers, Julie Bishop seems to be getting excellent value out of this falsehood.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-03/fact-check-zombie-tampon-tax/9715648
We cannot remove the tax on tampons until we get an honest government.
Some happy news today. Liverpool in the Champions League final 🙂
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/02/roma-liverpool-champions-league-semi-final-second-leg-match-report
Socrates
That’s a very interesting Factcheck. I hope someone draws it to Labor’s attention. I doubt they’d get too much political backlash. (just for once, Factcheck hits the right mark).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-03/fact-check-zombie-tampon-tax/9715648
Morning all
The tax cuts as targetted by Shorten are precisely what I was hoping and expecting he would put forward. Sweeettt
I wonder if she’ll be invited to ‘interview’ Malcolm again.
Socrates
cambridge Analytica and any shoot off have shut down. No doubt awaiting the right time to resurrect itself. At least for now it cannot do psychops on any election in the foreseeable future.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-03/us-navy-corruption-scandal-spreads-to-royal-australian-navy/9663558?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%3a8935&user_id=5110bea46376f5486dde153e00a7354a7414e60e5244dd2ac91c3fee92752257&WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Email%7c%7c8935&utm_content=ABCNewsmail_topstories_articlelink
Good Morning Bludgers 🙂
I wonder if the BCA is using Emerdata?
Rick WilsonVerified account@TheRickWilson
4h4 hours ago
Cambridge Analytica doesn’t QUITE make the #ETTD cut: they’ve spun off into some new forms. They’re the herpes of Russia-enabling data firms…they’ll pop up again soon.
“To come anywhere near winning the seat, the Liberals would have to win more than 50% of the primary vote.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/03/tim-hammonds-exit-leaves-labor-and-the-liberals-scrambling
I’m pretty sure if they win more than 50% of the primary vote, they don’t just come ‘anywhere near winning’, they actually win.
‘It’s crunch time’: Ex-CIA director says Trump ‘can change lawyers every day’ — but can’t avoid sitting down with Mueller
“It clearly is crunch time with regards to the Mueller investigation,” the onetime White House chief of staff told CNN’s Wolf Blitzter on Wednesday. “I think they’ve reached a point where, very frankly, they’re not going to be able to conclude this investigation without the testimony of the president of the United States.”
Amid a week full of Russia investigation bombshells that includes the revelation of Mueller’s Trump interview question wish list and news the special counsel at least once threatened to subpoena the president, Panetta said the revolving door of lawyers won’t stop the face-to-face meeting that’s sure to come.
“That’s the reality, and he can change lawyer every other day, but that reality remains the same.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/crunch-time-ex-cia-director-says-trump-can-change-lawyers-every-day-cant-avoid-sitting-mueller/
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace rips Trump: He ‘goes through lawyers faster than he goes through wives’
“No one wants to stay on the job and he doesn’t want them to stay on the job,” Washington Post opinion writer and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart replied. “There is chaos in the White House and there’s always been chaos in the White House.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-rips-trump-goes-lawyers-faster-goes-wives/
Confessions @ #141 Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 – 8:51 am
Money is thicker than morals.
The Rachel Maddow Show Is Growing Faster Than Fox News And CNN Combined
The Rachel Maddow Show grew faster in April than Fox News and CNN combined, as MSNBC’s momentum is accelerating as the blue wave builds.
According to a statement provided to provided to PoliticusUSA about April’s ratings, “The Rachel Maddow Show” continued to rank as the #1 program in the A25-54 demographic across all of cable news as well as for the 9pm time period (including all specials) for the month of April. “Maddow” also performed strongly in total viewers, ranking as the #2 program across all of cable news. “Maddow” averaged over 3 million in total viewers, up +25% (vs. FOX News’ +17% and CNN’s +1%), and 637,000 in A25-54, up +13% (vs. FOX News’ +17% and CNN’s -7%) over April 2017.”
Rachel Maddow offers insightful and intelligent questions that are frankly missing from most of the talking head gaggle that is cable news.
The Fox News strategy of using Trump’s shadow chief of staff Sean Hannity to take back the top ratings spot has not been working. Fox is no longer the dominant force that it once was. MSNBC is on the rise, and if Maddow’s growth continues, it may only be a matter of time before she and the rest of the network leave Fox News in the dust, as the Trump presidency has caused the fatal flaw of the Fox News strategy to be exposed.
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/02/the-rachel-maddow-show-is-growing-faster-than-fox-news-and-cnn-combined.html
“Mr Shorten will argue that the tax relief can deliver the strongest economic boost if it is targeted to those on the lowest incomes, guaranteeing the money will flow to consumer spending rather than being saved by those in wealthier households.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/bill-shorten-flags-support-for-income-tax-cuts-signals-halt-to-more-revenue-increases-20180502-p4zcw6.html
So, Bill comes across with the simple bleeding bloody obvious……….and the Libs and their Sel interested Running Dog Spivs have their spurious arguments shot down again.
Unless the Libs produce a totally different Budget that they have signalled so far they are going to have a torrid time next week.
Here’s Cathy Wilcox defending Andrew Probyn.
