The beauty of politics is that it is so predictable. The phrase “always back self-interest” is a pure truth in the political arena. Hence this is no surprise at all, via the AFR:
The federal government is no longer committing to take any unlegislated company tax cuts to the next election.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, who will try one last time to secure the passage of the remainder of the tax-cut package, indicated on Monday that the only cuts that would be taken to the next election were those that had been achieved.