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Reveal budget, election date: Shorten

The Labor leader says Malcolm Turnbull should end the uncertainty and reveal the budget and election dates.

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Bill Shorten has urged the prime minister to come clean on the dates for the budget and election.

The Labor leader said chaos had engulfed the Turnbull government as it toyed with the idea of a double-dissolution election and bringing forward the budget by a week.

"If Mr Turnbull is in the mood ... he should just say that the budget is on May 10 and if Mr Turnbull is feeling really bold and excited about governing he might even tell us the date of the election," Mr Shorten told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday.


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