NSW Premier Chris Minns received loud applause as he warmed up the crowd to welcome Albanese at this morning’s Labor rally in Parramatta.
As he spruiked the federal government’s policies on health and education, Minns reserved his jabs for Coalition shadow treasurer Angus Taylor. Labor had been making a meal of the Coalition’s tax breaks for small business lunches – one of its first economic policies in this election – and Minns kept it going this morning.
“You might have heard of him [Taylor], you may not have … His big plan is to give a small business tax break on entertainment expenses in order to bring back the long Friday lunch, as if that’s the reform that hardworking small businesses across our country have been demanding,” Minns said.
“Now I used to think that the Coalition couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, but friends, it seems I was absolutely wrong. It’s the only thing that they can organise.
“Of the bold reforming policies a self-respecting conservative shadow treasurer could do to boost jobs, economic growth, this is what he lands on. That and a series of half-thought-through but usually immediately abandoned media releases. Friends, what it’s not is a specific, detailed alternative plan for a national economy.”
Minns went on to promote Albanese as the best person to guide Australia through uncertain times.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns at Parramatta Town Hall.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
