Assistant treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced on Thursday that in next week's budget the government would cap the amount that public hospital staff and workers in the not-for-profit sector could claim in meals and entertainment entitlements.
In a 2014 vote to cap immigration, for example, the question asked was: "Do you accept the popular initiative, 'Stop mass immigration'?
He wore a "Richmond Tea Party" baseball cap, as well as a Code Pink sticker saying "Make Out, Not War".
No 10 says the idea was trailed in the manifesto and Ed Miliband in principle had accepted the reform, albeit as part of a wider reform of political funding including a cap on individual donations.
Third, with the lifting of the cap on student numbers in 2015, now is a perfect chance for all institutions to be flexible.
While Labour's MP for Newcastle East and former Cabinet Minister, Nick Brown, declared that the idea was simply "cruel and stupid", in January the party was actively calling for the Government's overall benefit cap to differentiate between regions based on the fact that someone in the north would need less than someone in London.
In its submission AGL warned that an overall "cap" on emissions – or a national carbon "budget" – was essential.
Rudd said there was no cap or limit on the number of asylum seekers PNG had agreed to take, but he expected over time as people smugglers "got the message" the rate of arrivals would slow.
There was a two-year pay freeze after the coalition government came to power, followed by a 1% pay cap for all public sector workers in 2013/14 and 2014/15.
The removal of the cap on private patient income means trusts will be able to make more of their income from private patients, to the detriment of NHS patients because the private sector people will be more valuable.
The chancellor set out his decision to cap public sector pay rises at 1% a year for two years from 2013 on the back of a two-year pay freeze.
