A budget for an early election: Shorten

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the government has come up with a budget to save the jobs of Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the government created the budget for an early election. (AAP)

Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten has accused the government of creating a budget for an early election rather than for the future of Australia.

"They haven't done it for life in the 2020s," the opposition leader told Sky News.

"They've done this budget to save Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey's job, they haven't done it to look at jobs of other Australians."