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Hume is asked about specifics of the Coalitions policies going forward, but isn’t offering much detail saying she “won’t go into the intricacies of policies just after the change.”

However, there is one thing she can say for certain:

All Liberals know that the Liberal Party should always be and must always be a party of lower taxes.

If you tax residential housing, there will be less of it. That would be a disaster. No-one has yet come out change to capital gains tax on residential housing will create more houses or provide more opportunities, rental houses those that are yet to purchase their first home. That would be a disaster.

We are always open want to see taxes decreased. Energy is going to be a real important of that conversation. Making sure we have energy abundance in increasing supply prices of energy.

Lower taxes are better than higher taxes. They’re better for all Australians. But energy abundance is what is going to bring energy prices down.

Something has to give. Australians are rightly aggrieved at the moment and you can see why they’re looking elsewhere because they weren’t finding answers in the messages and the policies and the positions we were taking.

That’s why there has been a change, that’s why Angus Taylor and I will lead team to the next election to make sure that we protect Australians’ standard of living, restore Australians’ standard of living and protect their way of life.

Everybody makes mistakes and if you don’t go through a period of reflection about what you would have changed after an election loss, then you’re fooling yourself.

Australians asked us to do that reflection and that was writ large in the result. What’s important now is the future. What do Australians expect from a strong Coalition and a Liberal party that knows what it stands for, a Liberal party that speaks with conviction and not with convenience.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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