The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, rejects comments by the assistant treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer, that house prices would rise under Labor’s negative gearing plan, saying they contradict what Malcolm Turnbull said in parliament on Tuesday. ‘The government needs to stop scaring people,’ Shorten says. ‘Everyone knows that negative gearing is overdue for reform.’ O’Dwyer has backed away from the comments that she made on Channel Seven’s Sunrise program, saying she had only been referring to prices rising for new homes