00:00Their fate rests in the hands of voters.
00:05Welcome to the Prime Minister's.
00:06So wonderful to be here.
00:09Thank you so much.
00:10But in the tightest of election contests, both leaders will take any help they can get.
00:15Praying for divine intervention?
00:17Well, it's nice to be here on a bipartisan basis.
00:20As politicians from across the aisle kicked off the year with a traditional multi-faith
00:25church service, up on the hill, a political brawl was brewing.
00:30School is back and Peter Dutton's big lunch will cost billions.
00:34The opposition's yet to put a price tag on its promise to give small businesses a $20,000
00:40tax break for work-related food and entertainment expenses.
00:44So Jim Chalmers has stepped into the void, presenting Treasury analysis, estimating the
00:49policy could cost between $1.6 and $10 billion a year.
00:54It will be under $250 million, nothing like what the Treasurer is trying to claim.
01:01Angus Taylor says the independent Parliamentary Budget Office has costed the policy and he'll
01:06release the figure before polling day.
01:09He's accused Labor of using Treasury as a political tool.
01:13This is not what a public service is for.
01:15This is egregious politicisation.
01:17The Treasurer needs to answer questions on it, the Treasury Secretary needs to answer
01:20questions on it.
01:21I need to go.
01:22Thank you very much.
01:23I was losing it this morning on TV.
01:26The fight spilled over into question time.
01:28You can imagine them sitting around with the blue teeth and the soy sauce on the tie, coming
01:33up with the big ideas, Mr Speaker.
01:35Angus Taylor shot back, defending the plan on fairness grounds.
01:40Treasurer, unlike small businesses, big businesses can cater in-house in their corporate board
01:45rooms and do so as a tax deduction.
01:48How much does this cost the budget?
01:50The first question time of the year was focused almost exclusively on one of the few policies
01:56the Coalition has so far released.
01:58The Prime Minister ridiculed the tax breaks plan as the sloppiest he's ever seen.
02:04But Peter Dutton remains confident that when it comes to cost of living, he has the upper
02:09hand.
02:10I think there is momentum for change, I think people do want to get their country back on
02:14track and certainly that's what we want to do.
02:17Rallying the troops for a tough fight to come.
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