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Labor promises hit $55bn: Turnbull

The coalition has costed Labor's budget promises to date and say they would blow out the bottom line by $55 billion.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
PM Malcolm Turnbull says Labor's promises to date would blow a $55 billion hole in the budget. (AAP)

Labor's promises to date would blow a $55 billion hole in the federal budget, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.

Mr Turnbull has told parliament Labor was continuing its "undistinguished record in fiscal management".

"From the measures that have been announced so far Labor would blow the budget bottom line by nearly $55 billion," he said on Tuesday.

A spokesman for Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen says Labor intends to provide more savings than spending over the next decade.

"We don't know what the state of the Budget will be after a term of fiscal mismanagement by the Abbott-Turnbull government," he said in a statement to AAP.

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"Labor will publish final costings and an impact on the underlining cash balance well ahead of the next election, in contrast to the pathetic benchmark set by the coalition in 2013 where they released a final bottom line one minute to midnight."


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