Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has disregarded rumours that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers should not getting alongside, saying she doesn’t know the place the hypothesis come from.
Talking on 9’s At present program, Gallagher stated she labored intently with each Albanese and Chalmers and guaranteed that they have been “good mates”.
A lot to debate: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers in November final 12 months.Credit score: Alex Ellinghausen
“They work intently collectively and it’s nice to work with each of them … notably during the last couple of weeks, we’ve been in every day contact and dealing actually intently collectively on finalising the tax cuts package deal,” she stated.
“I don’t know the place the speculations come from, but it surely’s definitely not true.”
Cameron Milner, a columnist at The Australian newspaper, claimed the pair was now not on talking phrases in an article revealed yesterday morning. Milner was briefly chief of workers for former Labor chief Invoice Shorten in 2016 and is now director of GXO Methods, a lobbying agency.
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.Credit score: Alex Ellinghausen
Gallagher additionally wouldn’t decide to saying there could be no adjustments to adverse gearing beneath the Albanese authorities.
“It’s simply not on our agenda in any respect … we’ve defined why we’ve modified our view on tax, we’ve been upfront with folks, it has been a change to place. We’ve fronted up, we’ve accepted that, we would like extra tax cuts in additional folks’s pockets,” she stated.
