From Fairfax:
During a morning television blitz on Wednesday, Mr Abbott also denied his big spending budget was a primer for an early election, insisting the next poll would be held around the “middle of next year”.
Australia’s 2 million small businesses won a $5.5 billion bonanza in Tuesday’s federal budget, including the ability to claim an unlimited number of tax deductions for buying cars and machinery valued at less than $20,000 each.
“I think the government would be very unwise to have an early election,” he said.
“That’s my free advice. I haven’t been asked.
“It’s a matter for the Prime Minister but I don’t see a particular double dissolution trigger in this.
“There’s no earthly reason in my view to have an early election.
“A double dissolution does not solve the senate problem. It potentially aggravates the senate problem.
“You don’t solve it at all. My hope is the government goes its full term.”
Seems good advice to me. Perhaps I’m wrong but I don’t think that the budget will change much and Tony Abbott ought to enjoy the time he has left.
