The Prime Minister paid tribute to John Howard and, in a nod to the party’s conservative base, Tony Abbott, before turning to the Coalition’s plan to cut company taxes to 25 per cent over 10 years, promote economic growth and pursue new trade agreement.
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Mr Turnbull spoke about his predecessors in the Liberal Party, including Mr Howard and Mr Abbott.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, second from left, holds his grandson, Jack, as his family gather on stage after his Liberal Party election campaign launch speech in Sydney, Sunday, June 26, 2016.
Mr Shorten continued his assault on the government over Medicare, insisting that, if re-elected, Mr Turnbull would dismantle the universal health care system “brick by brick”.
Malcolm Turnbull said the last thing Australians needed was a Parliament in disarray.
When questioned on whether he wanted to give himself any flexibility to break promises if circumstances changed, Shorten indicated he didn’t need it. He was confident a Labor government could keep the promises made because it had done so much work on them in opposition.
“A strong economy means that senior Australians know their children will be in good jobs, their investments will deliver better returns and that Government will have growing revenues to support their pensions and health care”, he said.
“Bill Shorten has demonstrated he lacks the moral fibre to be the prime minister of this country, he lacks the character to be a leader of our nation”, Ms Bishop said.
Bill Shorten’s scare campaign on Medicare collapsed on 7.30 tonight after he refused to repeat his lie that the Coalition would privatise Medicare. Turnbull used his official campaign la…
While earlier polls have shown the parties are similarly close, analysis has shown that Labor is unlikely to win the 21 extra seats it needs to form government.
“The single biggest risk to the Australian economy in the next three years, is three more years of a divided Liberal government”.
He gave the example of that noted victim of bigotry Scott Morrison, an opponent of same-sex marriage who will apparently be voting whichever way the plebiscite demands.
On Monday the latest poll revealed the Coalition had crept out in front of Labor for the first time during the election campaign.
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The coalition is expected to continue its attack on Labor’s budget management after announcing a $1.1 billion improvement to the budget bottom line over four years, partly achieved by a crackdown on welfare cheats.
