Labor has significantly increased spending on local projects across key battleground electorates, pledging over $1.2 billion this month. This move comes amid a political clash with the Coalition over spending cuts. Labor's pledges range from funding a new aquatic centre in Perth to supporting housing projects in Nowra. In contrast, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has focused on national policies and limited local spending commitments.
Labor has ramped up its spending on local projects in a bid to sway voters in some of the toughest battlegrounds at the federal election, pledging more than $1.2 billion this month amid a political row with the Coalition over spending cuts.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced funding for an aquatic centre for an aquatic centre in Perth on January 10.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised $12.7 million for a theatre and arts centre in Launceston in the seat of Bass, $5 million for Nowra housing projects in Gilmore and $6 million for the “living city” project in Devonport, in the marginal seat of Braddon.
Former NSW Supreme Court judge Anthony Whealy, KC, chairman of the not-for-profit Centre for Public Integrity, said the onus was on major parties to prove their spending would represent value for money. Second, the dominant purpose of a grant must be the public interest rather than any consideration of political benefit.
“The Liberals are prescribing a lethal dose of cuts to all the help we have provided families with their cost of living,” the prime minister said on Friday. The Coalition list includes the Shoalhaven road funding as well as $7.5 million for the Crime Stoppers program, which Dutton announced in the Melbourne seat of Aston, seen as a key swing seat because it was once held by the Liberals but won by Labor at a by-election in April 2023.
Cairns is a key target for Labor because it is the largest population centre in the electorate of Leichhardt, where longstanding Coalition MP Warren Entsch is retiring at the election, although the $159 million was spread across safe as well as marginal electorates.
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