Exclusive: Coalition has promised voters $833m a day as it outspends Labor in campaign mode | katinacurtis swrighteconomy
The Coalition has promised $833 million a day to electorates around the country since the week of the March 29 federal budget as it goes on a spending spree to hold on to power at next month’s election.
Despite the red ink, both sides of politics continue to make wide-ranging and politically targeted commitments.In the knife-edge marginal seat of Chisholm, Labor promised $2 million to upgrade a local sporting centre on April 9. Four days later, the Coalition pledged $3 million towards the same project.
There are six such hubs already running after Morrison promised them as a pilot scheme during the 2019 election. Labor announced the first of its planned expansion sites in early March. “If they can’t answer those very basic questions – they’re just public management 101 questions – then they really haven’t thought it through. It’s another brainwave. It’s just a bubble which they’re running with, and they’ll get themselves into trouble,” Allan said.
Across 18 key marginal seats – nine currently held by each major party – the Coalition has comprehensively outspent and out-promised Labor in all but five.
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