10.02am Coalition figures claim country is desperate for another election By Nick Newling
Angus Taylor and former Nationals leader David Littleproud have both said an election cannot come soon enough.
“I want this whole government dropped, I want the whole government dropped, because it is a flop,” the opposition leader said in a press conference. “It’s a complete utter flop. The whole lot should be gone, and I think more and more Australians agree with that.”
“We should drop the flops, the whole lot of them, every single one of them should go. And you know how Australians do that? Vote them out in an election [that] can’t happen soon enough,” he said.
Former Nationals leader David Littleproud also said Australians are desperate for an election to be called, despite having gone to a poll just over a year ago.
9.44am Taylor refuses to say if he wants house prices to fall By Nick Newling
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has refused to say whether he wants house prices to fall, instead saying housing needs to be “more affordable” as he accused the government of mismanaging the economy.
“I want to see housing being more affordable, and you know how you do that? You have lower interest rates, lower inflation, and higher incomes, higher real incomes, higher purchasing power of your pay packet, that’s how you get affordability up,” Taylor told a Canberra press conference.
Angus Taylor accused the government of failing on housing affordability. “This government has completely failed on affordability. It’s got harder and harder for young Australians to buy a home. They told us, they told us before the last election, they’d beaten inflation. They told us they’d beaten high interest rates,” he said.
“Well, inflation and high interest rates have beaten this government, and affordability has collapsed under this government, and we want to see that turned around, and that’s what we’ll do.”
House prices have dropped since the announcement of the government’s budget last month, and last week auction clearance rates fell to a six-year low of 47 per cent.
9.20am Logies nominees battle for Gold By Louise Rugendyke
Robert Irwin and Sam Pang will go head-to-head in the Gold Logie race, with the pair among the seven personalities nominated for Gold on Monday morning, along with Ally Langdon, Julia Morris, Lisa Millar, Poh Ling Yeow – who were all nominated last year – an
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