Should the Coalition win the election, there will be no nasty surprises and there’ll be no lame excuses.
No surprises and no excuses.
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Madam Speaker, in 121 days, there will be an election.
It will be a tipping point in the life of our country.
The choice could hardly be more stark: three more years of broken promises, nasty surprises and weak excuses.
Or change for the better with an experienced team that will not just rebuild the economy but also the bonds of trust that should exist between you and your parliament.
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Many of the measures in this budget are objectionable, the attacks on Medicare; the abolition of the baby bonus which the government had promised never to touch; robbing Peter to pay Paul on education; and forcing more businesses to do the tax paperwork monthly, not just quarterly.
But thanks to Labor’s poor management over five years, there is now a budget emergency.
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I’m offering what should be normal: careful, collegial, consultative, straightforward government that says what it means and does what it says.
