Malcolm Turnbull triumphs on union bill but is betrayed on backpacker tax

By Mark Kenny
Updated December 1 2016 - 6:30pm, first published November 30 2016 - 6:25pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a press conference on the government's ABCC victory.  Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a press conference on the government's ABCC victory. Photo: Andrew Meares

Morale within the Turnbull government spiked on Wednesday on the success of its long-denied building unions watchdog legislation, but its smiles were shortlived when a crossbench deal on its 15 per cent backpacker tax collapsed just half an hour later.

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