Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the dissolution of parliament effective on Monday and called for an election for the body’s two houses on July 2nd.
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“And I ask Australians when they hear these promises from him and from Labor to remember that Labor has no credible or coherent way to pay for them”, he said.
Shorten said his party represents a “fairer Australia” and put equality at the heart of the battle.
“It is very clear that as you reduce business taxes, you will get more investment and more employment and the Australian Treasury estimated previous year for every dollar of company tax cut there was $4 of additional value created in the economy”, he said.
Mr Shorten has promised “budget fix that is fair” if Labor is elected to office on July 2. “Or do we go back to Labor, which has no plan, only politics?”
Should the two Houses disagree and a deadlock arise, the Australian Constitution provides for a procedure wherein the government can request the Governor-General to dissolve both Houses of Parliament and announce fresh elections.
Bill Shorten, 48, is the charismatic leader of the opposition Labor Party.
Mr Turnbull told reporters at Parliament House in Canberra the election would be a “clear choice” for voters.
“We’re already hearing from Turnbull, who’s going to place jobs, growth and economic management at the heart of his re-election pitch, and he’s already warning Australians about what would happen if Labour was to be voted into Government”.
Turnbull is promising to cut tax rates for companies and high-income earners, and boost infrastructure spending.
The double-dissolution was triggered by the senate – where the government relied on minor parties to pass its bills – twice rejecting legislation. Turnbull’s own satisfaction rating has plummeted, from 52% to 38%. If they get another low number in four weeks’ time, United States recession talk could escalate and even though I can’t see such a threat, markets can get mad, bad and unsafe very easily.
Just a few months later, he lost the elections to Abbott, who was then unseated by Turnbull past year.
Labor again wants the emissions trading scheme to replace the government’s so-called Direct Action policy of paying polluters taxpayer-funded incentives to operate more cleanly, and Shorten has been reminding the public that Turnbull once described Direct Action as “an environmental fig leaf to hide a determination to do nothing”.
He promised to protect schools, hospitals, workers’ pay and conditions and to act on climate change while stressing Labor’s unity of objective and commitment to fairness.
Morrison cited 2013 research from the now-defunct National Housing Supply Council which claimed Australia had a housing deficit of 228,000 homes. But we’ve still got halfway to go and we need to raise more than $100,000 now, to stay on target. The coalition now has 90 seats in the 150-member lower house, to Labor’s 55, and betting odds show the government is the clear favorite.
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