Peta Credlin says if Labor is elected on May 18, Australia will see more than $200 billion worth of new taxes on ‘our most productive people’, hurting middle Australia. Credlin
Sky News host Peta Credlin says Labor is doing its best to ‘buy votes,’ with its commitment to a 'fair go' masquerading its ‘desperate spending spree’.
Ms Credlin says if Labor is elected on May 18, Australia will see more than $200 billion worth of new taxes on ‘our most productive people’, hurting middle Australia. Ms Credlin says a Labor win is no longer a ‘foregone conclusion’, as the public is seeing through ‘the lies and obfuscations’. Image: News Corp Australia
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