Shadow Portfolio — 13 May 2026

Senator Michaelia Cash used Senate question time on 13 May to press Minister Wong on a single, tightly framed accusation: that the Prime Minister made explicit pre-election promises not to change negative gearing, not to change capital gains tax, and not to increase taxes on family trusts — and that the government has since moved on all three [TA-260513-senate-d4ffca432415:s144] [TA-260513-senate-d4ffca432415:s145] [TA-260513-senate-d4ffca432415:s146].

The three questions were structurally identical, delivered in sequence, each demanding a count of how many times the Prime Minister made each commitment before the election. The repetition is deliberate opposition technique: each iteration is a discrete parliamentary record of the broken-promise charge, covering negative gearing, capital gains tax, and family trusts as a bundle.

The strategy positions these not as separate policy disputes but as a single integrity failure — a government that campaigned against these changes and is now pursuing them. No comms stream is present in today's package, so the parliamentary intervention stands alone. The record does not include Minister Wong's responses, and no direct quotation from the Prime Minister's pre-election commitments is carried in these records; the opposition's framing of those commitments as explicit promises is asserted through the questions rather than sourced within this segment.