Q: But only a couple of weeks ago, your leader and Shadow Treasurer were pretty solid saying, “No, there’ll be no tax cuts. You wanted to be the party of fiscal responsibility.” Have you been influenced at all by the coalition’s declining position in some opinion polls that you’ve decided this is a lever you had to pull?

James Paterson tries to sell this:

The difference between what Labor is proposing and what we’re proposing is ours is timely, it is targeted, and it is meaningful. It’s not baked into the budget forever, costing billions and billions and billions over many years. But it’s going to give people much more when they actually need it. So the same week that they’d be receiving a 70 cent-a-day tax cut under a re-elected Albanese Labor government, they could be receiving up to $1,200 from the Dutton Coalition government in a way that will really assist them when they really need it, but doesn’t bake in a structural spend in the budget.