More Tax cuts and fighting corruption..oppposition Budget reply

زعيم المعارضة بيل شورتن

Source: AAP

Opposition leader Bill Shorten has delivered Labor's response to Treasurer Scott Morrison's 2018-19 federal Budget. In his official Budget reply speech on Thursday, Mr Shorten said the Budget's priorities are misplaced.


Mr Shorten says if elected, a Labor government would give Australians what he calls a "fair go" when it comes to tax cuts.

Scott Morrison's Budget will give lower and middle-income workers income tax cuts -- some up to $530 a year.

But while Mr Shorten says the opposition supports the Coalitions's cuts -- which start on July 1st this year -- Labor would do better.

Mr Shorten says a first term Labor government would give lower and middle-income workers almost double the benefits afforded by

 

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