Tanya Plibersek says whether Malcolm Turnbull caves in and does nothing to negative gearing it will be a ‘co-captain’s call’ and Tony Abbott will contain forced the prime minister’s hand. All the developments from Canberra,live 5.13am GMTThe Labor leader Bill Shorten announced just before question time that the former special minister of state, Gary Gray, or had been relieved of his portfolio command. Gray will remain shadow minister for resources until he retires at the coming poll,but SMOS (my favourite acronym, SMOS) will now sit with Brendan O’Connor. 4.56am GMTThere’s a few things to catch up on. Give me a few minutes to survey the field and I’ll be back with the remainder of the political afternoon.
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Source: theguardian.com