When Scott Morrison was treasurer he flew the kite for an increase in the GST. The debate ran a while, before then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull shut it down. It was all too hard.
Now we have Jim Chalmers with a kite up, although he’s not “freelancing” as much as the wilful Morrison did.
Anthony Albanese is sanctioning Chalmers testing the mood for recalibrating the tax cuts.
