The Financial Review
Bill Shorten will trump the government's tax cuts for 2.9 million of the
nation's lowest paid but has ruled out adopting other cuts that would result in
a flat rate of 30 per cent for 94 per cent of workers and benefit the highest
paid.
The Australian
Bill Shorten will promise to extend personal tax cuts to three million more low-
income workers, pledge bigger budget surpluses and chart a course to end
government debt, in a bid to neutralise Scott Morrison's key election strategy
painting Labor as an economic wrecking ball.
Australia's media companies have warned that their journalism could be
criminalised and news stories forcibly removed from websites and television
broadcasts under the Morrison government's legal crackdown on tech giants, which
is set to become law today.
Australians living in marginal electorates are the big winners from the Morrison
government's "congestion busting" budget infrastructure package, with road
upgrades, rail projects and commuter car parks sprinkled over battleground
seats.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Labor will promise 2.9 million workers a bigger tax cut from July 1 than offered
by the Morrison government in a policy counterpunch while laying the ground for
an election fight on essential services by pledging billions of dollars for
health.
The Herald Sun
Several sex offenders, a murderer, a Chinese Triad member, four armed robbers
and 17 other violent thugs are among the latest criminals saved from
deportation. Each of the foreign-born criminals was rescued from expulsion by
the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
The Courier-Mail
Bill Shorten will amplify the tit-for-tat income tax cut battle for almost three
million lower-income workers in an alternative budget directed at wooing women
by supercharging their super and expanding universal preschool.
The Advertiser
Almost three million workers, mostly women, will be hit with higher taxes under
the federal budget than Labor's alternative, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will
declare tonight in his pitch to become prime minister.
The West Australian
Bill Shorten will tonight attempt to recast the election contest as a fight over
health care, using his budget reply speech to revive his controversial
"Mediscare" campaign that helped him almost topple Malcolm Turnbull in 2016.
The Mercury
A fleet of passenger ferries, each capable of carrying 50 people, would be
constructed locally to service up to 19 stops along the River Derwent under a
radical congestion-busting proposal hatched by Incat chairman Robert Clifford.
