Labor can try to spin its way out of a budget failure, but it won’t change the fact there is “no light at the end of the tunnel” for hard-working Australians who are trying to get ahead, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says.
“Given the strength of commodity prices, the jobs market, the trend of monthly surpluses I described coming out of the
pandemic, it’s clear that a drovers dog could have delivered the surplus this year,” he said during a National Press Club address.
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