CANBERRA, ACT, June 30 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:

SARAH FERGUSON, HOST:Prime Minister welcome to 7:30.

ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good to be with you Sarah.

FERGUSON:Do you consider Labor's modest improvement in the polls to be an endorsement of your Budget tax measures?

PRIME MINISTER:Well, polls come and go. What's important is that we get the governing right, and these are tax changes that are really important. Everyone has acknowledged during this debate that the housing system was broken, and therefore we have to do something about it. And what we've done is two main things in these reforms. The first is to give young people a fair crack at owning their own home. The second is a tax...