Liberal moderate Bridget Archer says Labor right to be questioning stage-three tax cuts

Archer tells Albanese government it's OK to change your mind' as debate continues within ALP about future of Coalition tax package

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Liberal moderate Bridget Archer says the federal treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, are right to be questioning the stage-three tax cuts, declaring governments have got to have an open mind if circumstances change".

With Labor divided over whether to keep, delay, amend or axe the Morrison government's stage-three cuts in the October or May budgets, Archer said the Albanese government needed to craft policy responses relevant to the times, rather than be hamstrung by perceptions about broken election promises.