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Treasurer Rob Lucas could be forced to further gut his contentious land tax reforms in a bid to win over intransigent crossbenchers, after the Labor Opposition today effectively killed off his newly-compromised Bill.
Labor leader Peter Malinauskas will be at odds with several of his colleagues if he seeks to block or amend the Marshall Government’s controversial land tax legislation, with MPs across the party in favour of backing the Bill.
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A former Liberal MP has raised a dire land tax warning in a face-to-face meeting with Treasurer Rob Lucas after attending a Labor forum on the looming legislative shake-up, with parliament set to start debating the changes next week.
Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has spent nearly $20,000 on Facebook advertising since the March 2018 election – considerably more than his bill for traditional radio and print messaging – and paid $28,000 to a consulting firm headed by a Labor communications and polling guru.
The most ominous assessment of the challenges facing Peter Malinauskas’s mission to rebuild faith in Labor’s local brand comes, bizarrely, from a rising star of Australia’s far right, writes Tom Richardson.
South Australia’s property and development industries have warned that a push by state Labor to impose minimum car parking requirements on new residential developments would increase costs to homebuyers.
State Labor has been warned not to alienate its working-class base by being aggressively “pro-environment”, with data showing swings against the party in heartland booths.
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