Australian politics live: Chalmers urges against mocking, cancelling or talking down to One Nation supporters
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PM has a ‘fetish for humiliating his treasurer’, says Wilson
The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, says the prime minister’s intervention to delay the ATO banning credit card payments shows a “pattern” of Anthony Albanese overruling his treasurer.
The prime minister has a kink for punishing small businesses and a fetish for humiliating his treasurer. So I say this is a consistent pattern of behaviour where the prime minister constantly goes in, overrides his treasurer, humiliates him in public. I suspect it’s going to sour the relationship somewhat.
My door is always open. Andrew [McKellar] did text me last Thursday morning and by Friday morning we had an announcement.
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