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Gallagher says Labor has not changed position on tax cuts
And on the stage three tax cuts, Katy Gallagher echoed the line the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, started last week and continued yesterday - which is effectively Labor playing dead on the $243bn cuts:
I have been asked this a number of times. You know, we haven't changed our view on stage three. They don't come in until 2024.
My sole focus at the moment is putting a budget together for October and what we can do in the short-term to relieve pressure on families. That is what I'm focused on everyday.
Well, the budget we inherited was heaving with a trillion dollars of Liberal party debt. We got deficits as far as the eye can see.
We got some programs that weren't funded in an ongoing sense that clearly are programs that need ongoing funding.
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