ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
The Coalition has spent the past four weeks throwing their support behind some of Labor’s most popular policies moving forward into 2025, including one that political analysts are calling a “mistake”.
This morning in Brisbane, Opposition leader Peter Dutton announced that the Coalition would support Labor’s key policy of not hiding your massive, gargantuan wealth in a blind trust for the purposes of misleading the voting public.
“That was an error,” said Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor.
“The Coalition would not support that policy as it’s divisive and reeks of the politics of envy. We want all Coalition voters to feel like they’re going to be millionaires one day, so voting against policy that aims to de-glove the mysterious circumstances of Peter Dutton’s extreme wealth and other great Australians would never be something we want them to vote for. Or is it against? Sorry, can I give you that again?”
The Advocate sought comment from the Opposition leader’s office but have yet to receive a reply. Party insiders, however, have told The Advocate that the Liberal Party finds it “disappointing” that this masthead is asking those kinds of reductive questions leading into a potential election campaign.
Labor announced the policy this morning in Melbourne and made no mention of Peter Dutton and his inexplicable wealth.
However, as Peter Dutton has consistently refused to address his actual wealth in a meaningful and insightful way, many voters around the country have grown suspicious.
“I don’t think he has anything to hide,” said one high-ranking Labor staffer to our reporter.
“He’s a property developer. He owns multiple properties. In the last few years, he’s sold a beachhouse for $4m, a penthouse for $6m. Sold another farm up in Esk for millions as well,”
“Voters don’t really mind that he’s worth $300m. It’s actually funny that he’s richer than Malcolm Turnbull. But the fact that he’s not open to disclosing what Dutton Investments Pty Ltd on his register of interests actually does, it makes voters uneasy. It’s kind of weird.”
Labor was hoping the Coalition would blindly throw their support behind the $300m blind trust policy, as they have done with Medicare, defence, immigration and housing policy so far this year. And it worked.
For now, the silence on both sides of politics is speaking louder than words ever could.
More to come.
