Albo says to wait on costings
OPPOSITION Leader Anthony Albanese says Australian voters only need to know if Labor will deliver a higher deficit than the Coalition 48 hours before polling day.
Mr Albanese refused to say what the budget bottom line would look like under a government he led as he was pushed to answer after abruptly ending a press conference in Western Australia on Tuesday.
Mr Albanese shut down suggestions voters deserved more time to digest the economic impact of his policy platform, instead committing to release his “costings” details on Thursday.
He said he was embracing the model used by former prime minister Tony Abbott, who also only controversially released costings two days out from the election in 2013.
The Coalition seized on the vacuum and completed its own analysis of the opposition’s costings, claiming there would be a $20bn deficit in Mr Albanese’s numbers.