QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT:
WHAT WE LEARNED
* The Turnbull government won't support a bill introduced by one of its own members to ban the live animal export trade.
* Labor won't see year-by-year costings of the government's personal income tax plan before the enabling bill is voted on.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN
One million jobs created over the past five years shows what can happen when the government puts in place the right settings for Australian businesses to invest.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Why won't the government match Labor's personal income tax cut plan?
THEY SAID WHAT
"He's got his hand so deep in their trousers, they are wincing at the prospect of a Labor government." - Treasurer Scott Morrison skates close to the lewd when talking about Bill Shorten.
"If that sort of question is asked, the person asking it should expect at least equal treatment in the reply." - Speaker Tony Smith on the use of insults and undesirable phrases in questions.
"What do these five things have in common? The Internet, the European Union, the Hubble Space Telescope, The Simpsons TV show and the Harry Potter book series? Not one of those things existed when those opposite last delivered a surplus 29 years ago." - Revenue Minister Kelly O'Dwyer.
TWEETED
@SwannyQLD The only record that shouty Morrison risks breaking in Parliament is the sound barrier
@JulianHillMP So did Lord Duke Mal of Wentworth, watch the royal wedding?
@MichaelSukkarMP Labor's rotten retirees tax rips money from seniors to fund rampant pork barreling (sic). These low income seniors must be the "millionaires" and "top end of town" Shorten and Bowen keep referring to.
Australian Associated Press
