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Coalition’s policy costings to come ‘in the next couple of days’, Taylor says

While Labor’s costings are warm off the press (released yesterday afternoon), the Coalition are still waiting to put out their numbers on how they’ll pay for all of their promises.

You will see them in the next couple of days … and the sneak preview is you will see a stronger budget position from Labor’s costings yesterday.

He rang me. He said, “Hi Adam, it’s Tony Abbott here. I’ve always considered myself a bit of an environmentalist. I think we should talk.”

A very short conversation. A very short conversation and Peter Dutton would get the same response this time.

Everyone says they’re not going to talk but I would be astounded if they refused to respect the parliament that the Australian people select. The flipside of that is that we’ve all got to give a bit.