The Liberal Party has had to disavow several of its candidates in Australia's general election
the party of mishaps, if not of mean-spiritedness. Ahead of an election on May 18th the ruling, right-of-centre Liberal Party has been obliged to disavow two of its parliamentary candidates for Islamophobia. Another stepped down after it emerged that he had called on the party to expel gay members. A fourth candidate was censured, but not dumped, for suggesting that women lack the “business skills” to earn as much as men.s this month for sexist and anti-Semitic slurs.
Labor has promised to match the Liberals’ tax cuts for the middle class and expand them for low-earners. But it wants to close loopholes that go mainly “to the top end of town”, as Bill Shorten, Labor's leader, puts it. That includes paring back lavish tax breaks for investing in property and the even more generous treatment of income from dividends for certain taxpayers. The money would go on health care and education, as well as an expansion of subsidies for child care.
Australia’s politicians have been at war over climate change for a decade. The Liberals dismantled a carbon tax put in place by Labor as soon as they came to power six years ago. Labor says it will try again. It wants to resurrect Mr Turnbull’s plan to cut emissions from power plants, but with a more ambitious goal, of a 45% reduction by 2030. To that end, it plans to spend A$10bn to boost renewable energy.
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