The budget is supposed to be about Australia’s long-term future. It’s really about the government’s short-term future come the election. Labor will back it all the way - and add some more spending of its own.
to an expansion of the first home guarantee for aspiring buyers to help more Australians “realise the dream”.
This is the ultimate in internal power plays undermining Coalition hopes of NSW countering losses in other states. “This budget is about addressing the cost of living pressures being faced by Australian families. That’s what this budget is about,” Morrison insisted on Monday. “It’s about the long-term plan that Australians need to grow their economy and deal with the uncertainties that are ahead.”
So it becomes even more important for candidates to have been able to campaign effectively in individual seats under threat. He promoted the additional funding for apprenticeships, but he also made a quick stop in the traditionally blue-ribbon seat of Curtin, where Liberal MP Celia Hammond is facing a challenge from yet another, campaigning on the independents’ formula of more action on climate change and integrity in government.
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