“This is a budget of broken promises built on lies, and not just lies, systematic and wilful ones.” Key elements of the Abbott government’s economic strategy have been thrown into chaos after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten declared its first budget a document based on lies and committed the Labor opposition to combine with the Greens in the Senate to block them. Making his first post-budget address-in-reply speech as Opposition Leader, Mr Shorten rounded on Prime Minister Tony Abbott for breaking promises. He vowed to block punitive changes to Newstart that would force some young unemployed people to exist without the dole, along with a shift in the pension age to 70, tightening of Family Tax Benefit Part B eligibility relating to children aged over six, and the move to restore twice yearly indexation to fuel excise.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:45:39 +0000
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