Coalition cuts to public service and ‘wasteful spending’ won’t be announced until after election, Dutton suggests

Federal opposition leader also doubles down on claim his nuclear plan would cut power bills by 44% despite Coalition’s own modelling being silent on issueFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe scale of the Coalition’s planned spending cuts won’t be revealed ahead of the federal election, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has suggested.Dutton on Sunday also repeated his claim that energy would be cheaper under the opposition’s nuclear plan – despite the modelling underpinning the strategy explicitly not assessing the impact on power bills. Continue reading...

Coalition cuts to public service and ‘wasteful spending’ won’t be announced until after election, Dutton suggests

Federal opposition leader also doubles down on claim his nuclear plan would cut power bills by 44% despite Coalition’s own modelling being silent on issue

The scale of the Coalition’s planned spending cuts won’t be revealed ahead of the federal election, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has suggested.

Dutton on Sunday also repeated his claim that energy would be cheaper under the opposition’s nuclear plan – despite the modelling underpinning the strategy explicitly not assessing the impact on power bills. Continue reading...