Timing its run right towards the end, the coalition has released three years’ worth of policy costings on the second last day of the election campaign. They show a Dutton government would run deeper than Labor for two years before making inroads into them. The government has dismissed the figures on a day Anthony Albanese began his charged to criss-cross all 6 states before polls close.
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00:00What other way to enter the final two days than hurling headlong into it, and Winthrop
00:10Primary was just the start.
00:19What's your daily schedule like as a Prime Minister?
00:22Today I will be in three states.
00:25After an early morning charity event in his home seat of Dixon, Peter Dutton roared into
00:33his second state too, along the way, subtly relegating the significance of all he's done
00:39these last five weeks.
00:41This election really is a referendum, not about the election campaign, but about the last three
00:45years of government.
00:46Sometimes marred by short-lived policies, his campaign racked up another one, when asked
00:52if it was still the Coalition's plan to change school curriculums to tackle so-called woke
00:58agendas and indoctrination.
01:00What would you change about the curriculum, just going back to that question?
01:03We don't have any proposals.
01:04They've looked for culture wars in every corner.
01:08There is a plan to ensure that schools are no longer ideologically indoctrinating children.
01:16With just over a day left, finally time to address budget black holes.
01:21We're not pretending for a second that this will be easy.
01:25Good government never is.
01:27The Coalition would deepen Labor's deficits by $5.6 billion next financial year, and an
01:34extra $2 billion the year after that, before reducing them.
01:38As for a timeline to surpluses...
01:41We'll get back there as fast as we possibly can.
01:44We'll get there a lot faster than Labor.
01:46Nuclear power is among the Coalition's biggest spending commitments.
01:50Over a decade, it'd invest $36 billion, rising to a total of $118 billion by 2050.
01:58Adding to revenue, public service job cuts are meant to save $17 billion, and a new tax
02:05on vapes would reap $3.5 billion over four years.
02:09These costings are a farce. They are a joke. This is a costing's con job.
02:15It's a substantially better outcome here than Labor's. We've been working hard at this for
02:20three years.
02:21This isn't the first opposition to hold back its costing so late in the race, and it probably
02:26won't be the last. Even so, there are enough details in the Coalition's document for debate
02:32to rage over them in the final day of campaigning. And by then, roughly half of all ballots will
02:38have been cast anyway.
02:40Are you ready? Yeah.
02:42And as they go about it, leaders will never be far away.
02:45How are you going?
02:46There you go, mate. Jackie Lambie and Rex Patrick for the Senate.
02:48That's okay.
02:49That's okay.
02:50Take your hands off me, alright? Do not touch me.
02:52On it, until the sun sets on campaign 25.