During senate estimates, Liberal senator Sarah Henderson asked when the minister for environment and water, Murray Watt, when he first became ‘aware that your government was going to break’ promises ‘not to increase capital gains tax, tax on trusts, winding back negative gearing’. Murray Watt fired back saying: ‘That is the most pathetic attempt to weave a non relevant issue into an estimates committee that I think I’ve seen in 10 years in this parliament’
Murray Watt calls Sarah Henderson’s Senate estimates question on changes to tax ‘pathetic’
