Spending cut details after the election, says Dutton

The opposition leader says the Coalition will work out its belt-tightening once in government.

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Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login An admission by Peter Dutton that the Coalition will examine detailed spending cuts should it win office, rather than announce them before the election, has fuelled claims by Labor that voters will be better off in three years if Anthony Albanese is given a second term. But a claim that voters will be worse off under the Coalition, made by the Prime Minister in an interview with The Australian Financial Review l ast week, was ridiculed by Mr Dutton, saying Mr Albanese had been reduced to a scare campaign.

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