Question time in federal parliament

QUESTION TIME IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT

WHAT WE LEARNED:

* Right across the board, every lever of the government is pulling in the direction of jobs, growth and a fair Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull proclaimed.

* Increasing the capital gains tax is not part of the government's thinking "whatsoever", the PM said. Other changes though were not ruled out so emphatically.

* Long bow analogy: Turnbull linked the opposition's negative-gearing policy to a decision Labor made in government to suspend live cattle exports to Indonesia.

WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN:

The impact Labor's policy on negative gearing will have on home values and the economy. Turnbull likened it to using an axe.

WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:

After almost six months of lost opportunities, when will the prime minister finally deliver an economic plan for Australia.

YOU SAID WHAT?

"The other thing they want to do ... the day a new home buyer puts the key into the door ... it's like driving a new car off the lot," Treasurer Scott Morrison delivers another obscure government analogy about Labor's negative gearing policy.

TOP TWEET:

"Speaker warning the crew of Noah's Ark that their behaviour from the Old Testament will be held against them in parliament today," Labor MP Stephen Jones, responding to Tony Smith's ruling that warnings from the previous sitting day carry-over to the next day.