Next election? Labor already won that when they took a 52 seat landslide win, you’ll need a cycle to pull that back to striking range especially with the conservatives splitting.

Thieves in the night ,you nailed it

It is still a braver document than anything produced by your side of the bench. It might be more useful to debate the budget proposals rather than just completely oppose everything just to be objectionable, we need an alternative government not a bunch of unruly snippers. What's your alternative plan?

Where's Paul Keating??

Still waiting for the $275 cheaper electricity

Got a son. He and his wife have been trying to get into the housing market with a first home. In desperation, he moved away to the country and bought a “fixer upper.” beaut. But it required a new roof, new laundry, upgraded kitchen new gyprock in most rooms. Guess what. He had to pay for the lot. - GST and all and NO TAX DEDUCTION whatsoever. The next door neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, had to do much the same. Roof, bathroom, internal panelling etc. GUESS WHAT? The neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, - [and doing his best to keep my son and his wife out of the housing market], had everything he bought to renovate, and all the associated costs as an IMMEDIATE TAX DEDUCTION. And there is the difference.

So happy to see howards tax rorts for the portfolio lizards being rolled back

The negative gearing and Capital Gains tax changes are good. We need to give our young people a chance to buy a home. It’s a missed opportunity not taxing our gas properly. Aussies should be benefiting from our resources not overseas corporations and governments.

Still haven’t received the electricity rebate that was promised…

Well Pat Conaghan MP what would you do to decrease the cost of living if you were the treasurer? Don’t pretend that Labor aren’t supporting the mining industry either, they are hand in glove with the miners. The best thing to do to decrease the cost of living is to reduce house prices and that’s what this budget seems to be about. Are you opposed to slowing the exponential growth of properties in Australia?

Which part of the budget would you immediacy repeal if the LNP gets elected Pat? If you really want to play the “Labor are liars” line then put your money where you mouth is and tell us all which measures you will repeal so if (and it’s huge if) the LNP get elected we can hold you and your government to account to do it.

Chris Bowen was the greatest beneficiary from this Budget! Now the heat is on Chalmers!

Dimwits, the lot of them!

Surely reducing their mass immigration will reduce government costs 🤔🤷‍♀️

Well if he went back 100 years and stayed there

Dennis another labour go..se you are

Why is no one talking about increasing the GST as a fairer reform?

What an utter insult to Australian taxpayers $250 ongoing payment per year that doesn’t start until 2027 😡 Supposedly they are helping young people get into their own home …..is Labor for real 😡 what young person can possibly afford the repayments when interest rates keep rising . ?Albanese and Chalmers really thinks young people are totally stupid 👎🏿 Ì see the future looking grim and poverty growing with many more homeless people . and Govt gross debt heading to $1.25 Trillion 👎🏿

Pat it's time to get him out. He is absolutely destroying this country. Whitlam was booted. Call on the constitution and demand he is removed before more damage is done!

Not even funny

If Angus Taylor cannot take advantage of this then the LNP are doomed

You'd do better attacking One Nation what with the exodus of voters from the Nats to them.

I knew the Nationals reply to the Budget would be comprehensive & constructive. Thanks Pat.

It was an absolute spin doctors feast…what a shit show

The COALition are, thru' their own doings and fault, on a fast track to complete irrelevance. Talk about Dumb and Dumber... the COALition whinge about Pauline Hanson and then ist preference her in Farrah so one's left thinking either Pat Conaghan MP, your party are either completely stupid or they have a death wish because Pat, you're not far from being down with The Greens on around 12%!! You had over 11 years with the 'Triumvirate of The Terrible' ie Abbott - Turnbull - Morrison, to make a difference and what a debacle they, and that was!

Pat Conaghan MP, you guys MUST get the reply to the budget spot on. If EVER there is an opportunity to absolutely gain traction, it is now. This budget would have to be the most spectacularly cynical in living memory and the coalition need to wallop them for it and never let up.

"Labor claims to be helping more Australians into home ownership with their broken promises on Capital Gains tax and Negative Gearing for landlords." In defending this budget, ACOSS made a bogus 1 for 1 argument that a lost landlord is not a problem as a new owner occupier means 1 less household in the rental market. This ignores rooming houses, an arrangement where typically 5 individuals rent single rooms in one house. An arrangement that can only be provided by a landlord. If such landlords sell, the house becomes a large family home. What previously served 5 households now only serves 1. The top end of the market it goes to was already well served by new build. There is very little new build serving the lower end that our erstwhile rooming house landlords provided for. It will make housing supply worse, not better. Pat, please have the matter of rooming houses raised in the budget reply speech.

Let’s see the reply from the Coalition/ National on Thursday. This is the opportunity.

That's a gaily simplistic summing up of the budget

Hey Albo can l put in my order for a bride. Send me your paperwork for,shape size height nationality ,etc etc.

2 million more how to vote labor cards

All Liebor care about is 2 million more votes.

Got a son. He and his wife have been trying to get into the housing market with a first home. In desperation, he moved away to the country and bought a “fixer upper.” beaut. But it required a new roof, new laundry, upgraded kitchen new gyprock in most rooms. Guess what. He had to pay for the lot. - GST and all and NO TAX DEDUCTION whatsoever. The next door neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, had to do much the same. Roof, bathroom, internal panelling etc. GUESS WHAT? The neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, - [and doing his best to keep my son and his wife out of the housing market], had everything he bought to renovate, and all the associated costs as an IMMEDIATE TAX DEDUCTION. And there is the difference.

Pitting one generation against another (inter generation inequality is the term used to distract us and cause division) will not help build more homes. We’re not building enough now, let alone to cover our natural population growth and they want to up the immigration numbers. All their changes, they say, will create 30,000 extra homes. That gets eaten up by immigration and more. Even IF what they say is correct, who can confirm the 30,000 extra homes will be bought by ‘young first home buyers’ not investors?

It will make no difference at all. It's a tax grab in a 'We are helping younger generations' wrapping. What would make a difference is the government backing off on spending to lower inflation, to put downward pressure on interest rates. The amount of government debt is going to impact on younger Australians as they're the ones who will face the debt repayment/s... so isn't that intergenerational theft?

Landlord will be increasing rents as a result of investment property general maintenance costs.

VOTE ONE NATION !

Welcome to the modern Labour Party political dictionary —where words no longer mean what Australians think they mean. Intergenerational Wealth = “Rebranding aspiration as unfairness so nobody notices government destroyed the conditions that created prosperity in the first place..” Housing Supply = Bring in 500,000 extra people, build bugger all houses then hold a press conference asking landlords why rents went up. Productivity = The economy is failing because Dave the electrician didn’t answer enough emails at 9:30pm. Immigration = A magic accounting trick where GDP goes up while your quality of life goes backwards. Energy Reserves = Australia has enough gas and coal to power half the planet, but apparently Brenda in Brisbane needs to sit in the dark to save humanity. Sovereign Wealth = Your superannuation. It’s “your money” right up until Canberra decides it has “national priorities”. Affordable Housing = A 38-square-metre apartment, 90 minutes from the CBD, with a shared wall so thin you can hear your neighbour blink. Net Zero = Fly private to climate conferences so ordinary Australians can learn why they shouldn’t own a ute. Economic Reform = Government-created problems repackaged as courageous leadership. Equity = Everyone should end up equally unable to afford a house. Sustainability = Making sure future generations inherit all the debt as efficiently as possible. Cost of Living Relief = The government setting your house on fire, then arriving with a garden hose for a media opportunity. Future Economy = An economy where nobody manufactures anything, nobody owns anything, but everybody has a subscription. Stakeholder Consultation = Paying consultants $4 million to confirm what Australians already told you for free. Public-Private Partnership = Profits private. Losses public. Accountability unavailable. Climate Leadership = Export coal, import solar panels, shut power stations, then act shocked when electricity prices triple. Resilience = The new word for “you’re on your own.”

Like HELL NO 😡😡😡

Nope 🙄

Budget for migrants!

Any further comment ... on the Budget, Pat? 😉 Will you push for the $2b for new housing infrastructure to provide lights for the Hospital/Lake roundabouts - retrospectively needed thanks to unhampered new homes construction approved by PMHC west of the roundabouts?

Communist scum

Where in the fuck are you going to put them all Abdul Albosleazy????? Put them all in the Victoria desert so it feels like home. How retarded is Albo and Labor.

Scum bags

This cunt is a fuckin legend! NOT ....

Labor Politicians don't care - they will be dead....pity about their children & grandchildren, but then they are SO stupid they can't think that far ahead.

The world has gone to shit anyway!!

ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS 1990-1993 on Replay Paul Keating Yes I have Memories of this because our Parents went thru HELL Now we r getting RAPED AGAIN 30 PLUS YEARS LATER I wish it was 2028 now Why so we can VOTE THE IDIOTS OUT

If we don’t have migrants then every single woman must have 3 babies 👶🏻 So have you done your bit Pat. One for you one for your wife and one for the country.

Hi Pat the LNP needs to get the message across that this CGT NG is reversed if you win power again

I love what you do Pat. Put Liberal Nationals and One Nation together. BINGO WINNER 🏆

It was Johnny Howard who said, “the only priority when in opposition is to win government”. Interpretation, do what you need to do, say what you need to say, to gain the vote. The only way to introduce the parties ethos is to have the majority. To pretend that the LNP are faultless, that they haven’t committed to a “broken promise” strategy, lying or espousing grievance tactics, is in itself deceitful. Pat, you are having a wardrobe malfunction.

So the Nationals & Liberals don’t come up with slogans, pre-prepared answers, slurs, snipes and put-downs ??? It’s tricky, isn’t it, Pat ? Knowing that you’re going to be pot-shotted , as soon as you try to make progress on consequences stemming from past policies. You end up not being prepared to upset the apple-cart, despite obvious problems. Pat, you know there are problems stemming from negative-gearing, capital gains, fossil fuels, water use, and the market. But you Nationals won’t come up with good reformative policies, because it’ll ruin your conservative image. Come on, Pat, it’s 2026.

Hi Pat. It’s getting beyond a joke. I just hope the Australian people react accordingly.

Instead of political adherence to the Will of the people we have our own government using cheat sheets and nudge units to handle descent...🙄

Got a son. He and his wife have been trying to get into the housing market with a first home. In desperation, he moved away to the country and bought a “fixer upper.” beaut. But it required a new roof, new laundry, upgraded kitchen new gyprock in most rooms. Guess what. He had to pay for the lot. - GST and all and NO TAX DEDUCTION whatsoever. The next door neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, had to do much the same. Roof, bathroom, internal panelling etc. GUESS WHAT? The neighbour on his third investment/negatively geared house, - [and doing his best to keep my son and his wife out of the housing market], had everything he bought to renovate, and all the associated costs as an IMMEDIATE TAX DEDUCTION. And there is the difference.

It's a tax on property hoarders and as a renter I'm all for it

So what is inappropriate with changes brought about to remedy the inherent inequity. To think that these responses are inadequate is probably more a reflection on the people who want nothing to be done.

Negative gearing is a luxury Australia can’t afford. I have 5 empty houses sitting in front of my place- all negatively geared. If you are really concerned about housing stock this needs to be changed.

When are the Lib/Nats going to propose some economic policies??? Or you going to just talk about immigration for the next 5 years until One Nation replaces you? I’m not a Nats voter, but I value democracy, and having such a poor opposition isn’t good for our democracy.

Keep em honest Pat!😃👍🇦🇺

How dare young people expect to own a house, that should be the exclusive domain of kids with rich parents.

Well you'd be the first to accuse them of breaking promises whether you agreed or not

Confucious say, don’t speak with fork tongue 👅

Didn't they lie for personal financial gain?

The labor party All spin - no substance!!

And how do the Liberals end up with the same talking points every day? They are given the talking points by their staff. Same:same

Like the GST hmmm

Exactly what we expect from Labor, welcome to my spiderweb !!

History is being formed from liars after liars from this Labor government! The future is getting darker with the path Labor party is leading Australia!

Hey Pat, Albo and Grim Jim often talk about "Closing The Gap" they're both so stupid they wouldn't be able to find Horseshoe Bay let alone the gap

Vote labour out

So all you labor voters with investment properties, how do you feel now that albo has lied to you for the umpteenth thousandth time? Still happy to vote for him.

You expect lying from this government