Backpacker tax: Malcolm Turnbull attacks Bill Shorten for favouring 'rich white kids' from Europe

By Matthew Knott
Updated December 1 2016 - 12:03pm, first published 10:00am
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attacked Labor for sticking by its demand for a 10.5 per cent backpacker tax. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has attacked Labor for sticking by its demand for a 10.5 per cent backpacker tax. Photo: Andrew Meares

With time running out to find a solution to the backpacker tax impasse, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ramped up his rhetoric on the issue by accusing Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of favouring "rich white kids from Europe" over poor Pacific Islanders and young Australians.

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