The budget is based on a lie confected to justify a range of broken promises.
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Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon.
There is no budget emergency and therefore, no budget emergency action is required.
Before every election Treasury updates the budget position so that all political parties know exactly what the state of the country’s finances are. With this knowledge, Tony Abbott said on the eve of the election – there will be “no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no changes to pensions”.
All those promises have been broken.
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