Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.A mortgage broker forked out $16,500 on Canberra's night of nights to take his grudge about budget tax directly up to the prime minister in a tennis match at the Lodge.Joseph Daoud won the tennis game with the PM at the Midwinter Ball charity auction on Wednesday night.The financial commentator got attention this week for spending tens of thousands of dollars on billboards protesting the scaling back of negative gearing and the capital gains tax.After he secured the winning bid, Daoud took to LinkedIn (where else?) to say the concerns of the sector had fallen on "deaf ears"."I got real resourceful to find a way to ask our questions Part of the fun is the speeches delivered under Chatham House rule by the leaders — which also means those in the room can't directly quote what was said.But here's a flavour: Albanese didn't top last year when he emerged in a Hawaiian shirt with Medicare cards all over it.Opposition Leader Angus Taylor also didn't reach the highs set by his predecessor Sussan Ley in her blistering address last year.After being asked about the tennis showdown by the opposition in Question Time, the prime minister joked about Taylor's speech."If I was someone on that side, led by this leader of the opposition, I wouldn't be mentioning last night