The Prime Minister’s tetchiness on Thursday is the latest in a series of moments where Albanese has become curt when pressed on hard topics.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has given a snarky interview over tax reform and interest rates, accusing the media of focussing on “not terribly clever questions” as the government’s agenda stalls in the Senate against opposition from the Coalition and Greens.
Thursday’s interview became tense when Karvelas asked the Prime Minister whether he was ruling out changes to capital gains and negative gearing tax rules.“Well Patricia, I don’t answer … those sort of questions,” Albanese said. Karvelas interrupted: “you mean good ones? That’s a good question. Are you going to say no to those things or not?”
The government’s policy agenda has stagnated this week, despite the senate being open in Canberra, as opposition and crossbench senators deferred debate for two months on Labor’s Help to Buy policy, which would allow the government to help poorer Australians buy 40,000 homes.
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