The Australian’s National Editor Dennis Shanahan says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was “afraid” of spending too much money and conflated the tax cuts with addressing inflation and broken a promise.
“It certainly has been a momentous start, Anthony Albanese started his political year about the middle of December,” Mr Shanahan told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“It was clear that the prime minister was aware of falling public support and the need to actually do something about cost-of-living relief for middle Australia.
“He campaigned like an election campaign.
“What he did promise – was that there would be cost-of-living relief in the budget, then he announced that there would in fact be a re-writing of the stage three tax cuts, a completely broken promise, one that he pledged a number of times – which he completely overturned.”
