Every budget week, a chorus of voices urges the opposition leader to "put some meat on the bones" of his* alternative policy vision for the nation.Did Peter Dutton put "meat on the bones" of the opposition's plans for Australia tonight?First: Dutton used to work in a butcher's shop. So he knows that "putting meat on the bones" is not actually how meat works.
The opposition won't oppose the budget's $3.7 billion spent on $300 power bill rebates for every household, even though shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor expressed the view to RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas yesterday that it should be better-targeted. This is a highly-incendiary claim. It is politically potent, and it pushes on an open door in the Australian psyche — the one that worries about being "swamped by immigrants". In the 1970s and 1980s, the concern was that immigrants would steal Australian jobs.Importing a ready-to-work foreign adult is actually far quicker and cheaper than making a new Australian from scratch using the traditional birds-and-bees method.
As he did last year, Dutton promised tonight to expand the number of hours welfare recipients can work without losing benefits, increase the number of psychology sessions funded annually by Medicare, and ban gambling during sporting events.This is a week in which the government has put forward contestable ideas.
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