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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.

The Ukip leader later hit out at those with a worrying "anti-rich attitude" after one audience member held up a picture of a mansion belonging to Ukip donor and former treasurer Stuart Wheeler, who is an Eton and Oxford-educated ex-Conservative millionaire.

Sinodinos has stepped down as federal assistant treasurer while Icac investigates.

The former Tory treasurer, who now insists he is an impartial pollster, suggested that the Tories and Labour would be tied on 272 seats each.

During an appearance at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, the shadow treasurer was asked whether Labor's national conference should pass a similar policy resolution on the Middle East to the one passed by the NSW state conference in 2014.

The shadow treasurer said he maintained a close interest in the issue.

The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, also rejects a binding vote, but admitted he has changed his position on the issue.

At his long-awaited appearance on Thursday, Sinodinos confirmed that he was unaware of $74,000 donations from AWH to the NSW Liberal party while he was both AWH director/deputy chairman as well as treasurer of the state party.

When Watson asked if Sinodinos knew in his capacity as treasurer about the donations, he replied he "cannot recollect" being aware of it at the time.

Victoria's treasurer, Michael O'Brien, another Liberal, said he would be "watching like a hawk" to see whether the new Medicare co-payment had the predicted effect of sick people instead going to state-run hospital emergency departments, saying that was "a form of cost-shifting we simply can't bear".

"If they want to maintain that level of funding … they will have to get it from taxpayers, just as we would have had to get it from the same taxpayers," treasurer Joe Hockey told the ABC on Wednesday.