Shorten lays out alternate plan in Budget Reply Source: SBS
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has continued to criticise the government's budget as one benefitting the rich as well as raising concerns about any retrospective changes to superannuation. With the election campaign about to formally get underway, Mr Shorten has targeted his repsonse to Tuesday night's budget on the traditional Labor focuses of health and education, as well as infrastructure and giving the less-well-off a hand up, rather than what he says is the government's approach of helping the wealthy. Bill Shorten wants to be Australia's new Prime Minister in slightly less than two months. To that end, he's repeating his charge that incumbent Malcolm Turnbull is one of the old- not much different to the man he replaced in the top job, Tony Abbott. "This budget was meant to be Malcolm Turnbull's justification for rolling Tony Abbott. After Tuesday night, Australians are left to wonder why he bothered. The same 80 billion dollars of cuts to schools and hospitals- still in the budget. The same cuts to working and middle-class families- still in this budget. The same cuts to Medicare, to childcare, to aged care, to paid parental leave, to pensioners and carers- still in this budget."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has continued to criticise the government's budget as one benefitting the rich as well as raising concerns about any retrospective changes to superannuation. With the election campaign about to formally get underway, Mr Shorten has targeted his repsonse to Tuesday night's budget on the traditional Labor focuses of health and education, as well as infrastructure and giving the less-well-off a hand up, rather than what he says is the government's approach of helping the wealthy. Bill Shorten wants to be Australia's new Prime Minister in slightly less than two months. To that end, he's repeating his charge that incumbent Malcolm Turnbull is one of the old- not much different to the man he replaced in the top job, Tony Abbott. "This budget was meant to be Malcolm Turnbull's justification for rolling Tony Abbott. After Tuesday night, Australians are left to wonder why he bothered. The same 80 billion dollars of cuts to schools and hospitals- still in the budget. The same cuts to working and middle-class families- still in this budget. The same cuts to Medicare, to childcare, to aged care, to paid parental leave, to pensioners and carers- still in this budget."
