As Scott Morrison exits, Albanese takes his stage-three tax cuts out to the trash

‘It was always hard to imagine Albanese, whose political identity is defined by humble beginnings, handing over $9,000 a year to the rich with a smile.’ Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

As word leaked on Tuesday about Scott Morrison’s retirement, his colleague Angus Taylor cited stage-three income tax cuts as a “critical” part of the former PM’s legacy.

It was a convenient way to pivot from an unwanted bout of the Coalition talking about themselves to his preferred issue of the day: Labor’s broken promise, its impending plan to radically reform the tax cuts it had recommitted to at the 2022 election.