Standing in the prime minister’s courtyard at 8am,Anthony Albanese implied Peter Dutton was taking a Trump-lite strategy on public service cuts.
Which side has the answer? So far,neither. Labor offers platitudes,the Liberals offer complaints.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton moved on Thursday night to intensify the contest over households’ budgets with a pledge to drive down the cost of energy by ramping up gas supplies.
Fiscal discipline has been all but abandoned in favour of vote-buying.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will unveil a $6 billion cut to fuel excise in a move to nullify Labor’s tax cuts – a move straight out of the Scott Morrison playbook.
Australians are about to be invited to an auction where Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton bid for votes with competing claims about personal tax cuts.
The opposition has already rejected Labor’s surprise tax cut,but did not rule out an alternative plan.
Australia has been name-checked again by American officials for possible tariffs. “Until they make a decision,we don’t know what to believe,” a senior government source admitted.
Jim Chalmers will use his budget speech to assure Australians they will see a turnaround in living standards as wages increase at a faster rate than inflation.
The prime minister is looking to an unlikely source to take on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.