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

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The scale of the Coalition's planned spending cuts won't be revealed before 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.

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