Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I reject the characterisation of the meeting. It was a usual meeting that the Prime Minister has from time to time. In the context of the election on the weekend, the Prime Minister meets with colleagues on a state-by-state basis as appropriate, and that is an important part of the job he does as the leader of our team nationally. It was a very constructive meeting. It was a meeting focused on making sure that we deliver the best possible outcomes for the Australian people right across Australia and that we put ourselves in the best possible position to win the next election, because that is in the national interest; it is in the interests of families around Australia wanting to get ahead, who would be harmed by the anti-business, high-taxing, politics-of-envy, socialist agenda prosecuted by Mr Shorten.