The Daily Breakdown

Get the orderlies, Keating's done a runner! The old duffer - like an ageing rocker touring country RSLs - is reading a script of abuse and cleaning up messes he left last week. Using Keating as a spokesman verges on elder abuse.

ScoMo slipped when he called China a 'customer' (they're really our landlord), but it exposed the two faces of Bill Shorten: Blue-collar Bill for the workers and Toffy Bill for the top end of town.

The Libs' housing policy is the worst announcement of 2019. It is interventionist. Counter cyclical. Expensive. Dumb. So of course Labor had to copy it immediately. The stupid is strong in this campaign.

Climate preachers got all tingly when the UK reported it went 170 hours without coal ... but there's a big difference between low carbon and renewables.

The News Ltd papers didn't attack Bill Shorten's mum - they celebrated her achievements. And they were significant. But Bill downplayed her career for his own political purposes and scored a win against Murdoch in the process.

Calling Liberals "far-right" and "extremists" is a wink-and-a-nod to calling them Nazis. And it's easy to justify punching a Nazi, right?

As a former Cabinet minister working for a foreign government-owned company, Paul Keating should be registered with the Attorney-General's department, and a registered person "must report any registrable activities undertaken during a voting period". He fits the criteria, so why hasn't PJK registered?

Labor's arguments for franking credits are remarkably similar to the arguments for death taxes - and they're an easy way to get us more used to the idea that the tax man comes when you go.

Brian Fisher released a report that questioned Labor costings and many climate assumptions. For his trouble a climate change catastrophist posted Fisher's home address (his house was egged) and the Opposition Leader compared him to doctors paid by tobacco companies. This is a dangerous path for Australian politics.

Labor was right. Some Australians do negative gear up to six properties ... they just happen to be on the Labor front bench. It's not illegal, but it is hypocritical.