Given The Greens are happy to name and shame Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and his wife. Lucy, over investment property holdings on their national website, one would hope to see a few red faces in the party room following the disclosure that ACT Greens leader, Shane Rattenbury, has also dabbled with negative gearing.
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In its "quick facts" on negative gearing reform The Greens website notes "the Prime Minister and his wife own nine properties between them, including five investment properties".
It goes on to state over half of the $4 billion annual cost of negative gearing goes into the pockets of the richest 20 per cent of households and that the 10 electorates with the highest rates of negative gearing are all held by the Liberals.
The key difference is the Turnbulls are not members of a party committed to stopping other people from using the same means they have employed to grow their wealth.
While Mr Rattenbury has broken no laws or regulations by using a legitimate financial tool favoured by millions of Australians, it is difficult to reconcile his ownership of two negatively geared properties with his party's policies.
The Greens went into the Federal election pledging to "remove negative gearing for all non-business assets purchased by individuals, funds, trusts, partnerships and companies on or after July 1, 2016, with assets purchased prior to this date grandfathered".
Mr Rattenbury's properties, one at the Mayfair Complex in Civic and one at Astin Apartments on the corner of Northbourne Avenue and Ipima Street, would both fall into that category.
If the charges of hypocrisy, already being levelled against him by the ACT Liberals, are to be countered, Mr Rattenbury must reconsider either his investment strategy or his allegiance to a political party that is committed to abolishing it.
The opposition is, meanwhile, not without some campaign controversy of its own.
Despite the recent resignation of one Federal election candidate from the Army Reserve over the use of pictures of himself in uniform in campaign material and the sacking of another for the same reason, ACT Liberals leader, Jeremy Hanson, has chosen to feature pics of himself in fatigues in his advertising.
Mr Hanson, a career army officer before entering politics, retired from the reserve in 2015.
While this arguably leaves him free to use his extensive military career to support a narrative he is an effective leader, a good manager and somebody who can make the tough decisions, there are limits as to how far you can reasonably take this.
As Neil James, the executive director of the Australia Defence Association, adroitly observed, "to keep the gun out of politics you need to keep politics out of the gun. Defence must always be apolitical and be seen to be so".
While his military experience is a valid card for Mr Hanson to use, he needs to be careful not to overplay that particular hand.
