Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast PM has a ‘fetish for humiliating his treasurer’, says Wilson The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson , says the prime minister’s intervention to delay the ATO banning credit card payments shows a “pattern” of Anthony Albanese overruling his treasurer. The prime minister has a kink for punishing small businesses and a fetish for humiliating his treasurer. So I say this is a consistent pattern of behaviour where the prime minister constantly goes in, overrides his treasurer, humiliates him in public. I suspect it’s going to sour the relationship somewhat. My door is always open. Andrew [McKellar] did text me last Thursday morning and by Friday morning we had an announcement. Continue reading...