Shadow Portfolio — 5 June 2026

Shadow Minister Andrew Hastie used Question Time on 4 June to press the Prime Minister on a factual discrepancy at the centre of the government's capital gains tax reform. Hastie asked whether the Prime Minister would correct the Hansard record after Treasury Secretary Jenny Wilkinson clarified that a minimum 30 percent capital gains tax rate was never part of the pre-1999 system — directly contradicting the Prime Minister's earlier stated rationale that "We are also changing the capital gains tax regime to go back to 1999" [TA-260604-house-97eb5e75391c:s121].

The question frames the opposition's core attack: that the government misrepresented the historical basis of its own CGT policy, and that the Prime Minister's framing of the changes as a return to a prior regime is factually unsupported by his own Treasury Secretary. The strategic thrust is accountability rather than an alternative policy prescription — Hastie is not contesting the mechanics of CGT reform directly but targeting the credibility of the justification offered for it.

No comms activity from Hastie was recorded in this window, and the parliamentary record contains only this single exchange. The absence of a media release means the parliamentary intervention stands alone; whether the opposition intends to escalate this line — for example, through a formal correction request or a separate media statement — is not apparent from available records.