Should private health companies pay the full bill for using public hospital beds? Not according to Liberal MP Damien Tudehope.
Months before last year’s state election, the then-finance minister quit cabinet after failing to disclose his superannuation fund held shares in toll giant Transurban. At the time, Tudehope said he didn’t know about the shares because the fund was managed by a fund manager.
Tudehope, and the Liberals, meanwhile, have taken the opposite view. Speaking in the Legislative Council on Tuesday night, Tudehope went in to bat for the big health insurers, claiming that the government’s new laws would break Labor’s promise not to introduce new taxes. Only one man could make it make sense, but Tudehope didn’t answer CBD’s calls or questions about whether he still had the shares. Maybe he still just doesn’t know.The cavernous, industrial expanse of Sydney’s Carriageworks is vast enough to fit several elephants. And Nine, owner of this masthead, has many of those.
That was the first and last time the dirty laundry made an appearance, leaving guests to enjoy their slow-cooked lamb shoulder and free-flowing booze, while a video montage previewed the delights beaming into the living rooms of Middle Australia next year, includingIn years past, Nine’s upfronts have been an altogether more glitzy, loose affair, with top TV talent taking the stage for a bit of lighthearted banter. This time, nobody outside the management team stepped up.
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