Shadow Portfolio — 13 May 2026

Simon Kennedy (Liberal) used Question Time on 13 May to drive a personal-hypocrisy attack against the Prime Minister over negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. Kennedy asked directly whether the Prime Minister is preventing the next generation of Australians from accessing negative gearing and the CGT discount — tax concessions the PM has himself used [TA-260513-house-ee1b85aea947:s148].

Kennedy sharpened the personal edge by pointing to the Prime Minister's purchase of a $4.8 million property in Copacabana, framing the government's apparent policy direction on property tax as one that would close off benefits the PM personally enjoyed while building his own wealth [TA-260513-house-ee1b85aea947:s148]. The attack is structured to make the generational fairness argument cuts both ways: Kennedy positions the Coalition as defending access to investment tools for younger Australians, while portraying the PM as having pulled up the ladder behind him.

Only one parliamentary record is available for this date; no comms-stream material was supplied alongside it, so any coordinated media-release campaign on this issue remains unconfirmed from the available records.