We all needed a bit of a long break there.

Having a look at the vote to pass the tax cuts (which the Coalition opposed) Andrew Hastie and David Coleman were both absent. Given Hastie’s future leadership ambitions, that seems unusual.

Also, the commentary around the salmon bill really needs to catch up. Journalists keep repeating ‘it’s just about jobs’ meaning the salmon industry jobs. Which has been revealed to be 60. Six. Zero.

This is not about jobs. Talk to any independent Tasmanian MP and they will tell you that locals don’t want the industry to be able to use Tasmania’s coastline for this – they would like to see the industry taken off shore.

But the salmon industry uses the jobs line so it becomes one of those ‘truisms’. The facts are there – you just have to look.

Meanwhile, this is an example of some of the analysis we are being offered: “I’m told the Coalition today will essentially be laying out why people are worse off under the Albanese government that they were three years ago.”

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The questions meanwhile, are playing out as you would expect.

Peter Dutton:

“My question is to the Prime Minister. Given last night’s cruel hoax of a Budget, can the Prime Minister explain how struggling Australians, by giving them just 70 cents a day in 15 months time is going to help them with their mortgage, energy, insurance and grocery bills today?”

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