Mathias Cormann heaps praise on Bill Shorten

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Here’s yet another sign that the Coalition’s election campaign is faltering, with Mathias Cormann – Finance Minister and the Turnbull Government’s official campaign spokesman – heaping praise on Labor leader Bill Shorten (see video above):

“Bill Shorten is very caring and very much in touch and Bill Shorten every single day is promoting our national economic plan for jobs and growth, which of course is exactly what Australia needs given the continued global economic headwinds”…

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.