QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT:
WHAT WE LEARNED
* Malcolm Turnbull is awaiting the Queensland premier's signature on a new five-year hospitals agreement.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN
Labor used to believe that lower corporate taxes were good for jobs and wages.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
There are splits in government ranks over whether the corporate tax cut package should be taken to the next election.
THEY SAID WHAT
"It was good to see the Labor Party vote for it last night. The treasurer was so persuasive." - Turnbull on Labor supporting personal income tax cuts in the lower house.
"The shiftiness of it, to come into this place, say they are voting for it in the House and they are going to vote against it in the Senate." - Treasurer Scott Morrison on same tax cuts.
"We are backing the tax plan of the government." - Nationals leader Michael McCormack.
"I haven't put anyone on Manus Island. You did." - Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to Greens MP Adam Bandt, asked about the latest death of an asylum seeker.
TWEETED
@SwannyQLD The Trumpification of the Libs under Turnbull is all about giving more to the highest income earners and less to middle and low earners. No distancing at the edges from the Nationals changes that fact
@TimWattsMP Scott Morrison has the economic credibility of a barbie doll
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