As the election campaign enters its final days, criticism is mounting over the Coalition’s failure to counter Labor’s Medicare scare campaign with hard-hitting attacks of their own.

Michael points to Labor’s quietly pursued plan to tax unrealised capital gains a potentially disastrous shift  as a missed chance for the Liberals to educate voters on real economic risks, lamenting a campaign more focused on fear than future vision.

Listen to more highlights from Afternoons with Michael McLaren below: