Peter Dutton has accused the government of raising a white flag on providing financial relief from rising power prices, saying key election promises have been abandoned.
The opposition leader used his first budget reply speech on Thursday night to attack the Albanese government’s budget for not providing adequate cost of living measures at a time of rising inflation and electricity costs.
But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fired back on Friday morning, labelling it “the weakest budget reply that I’ve seen in my time in politics”.
Dutton said the government had reneged on key election pledges to lower electricity bills by $275 a year….