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The shadow housing minister, Michael Sukkar, is now up on ABC’s Insiders.

He’s asked about his colleague Jane Hume’s comment, reported in the Nine papers on Sunday, that the Coalition’s now-aborted work-from-home policy wasn’t a bad idea - it just wasn’t the right time for it.

We’ve made very clear that we’ve left that policy behind.

The point here is that it is a feature of our tax system. If you have an investment, you are entitled to offset losses from one investment into other forms of income that you’ve got.

That will mean that when you look at the laws of economics, if it’s cheaper to produce something, it’s going to be cheaper to sell.

So this is probably the problem, isn’t it? You can’t tell me … and our viewers how much it’s actually going to cost to build these nuclear power plants?