But Opposition leader Bill Shorten is strongly rejecting the claim Scott Morrison's Budget looks like something a Labor treasurer might have written.
As the Coalition works on selling its economic blueprint, the Budget is attracting criticism from across the political spectrum.
In a fiery Question Time, Malcolm Turnbull got to work selling the major healthcare reforms in the Budget.
"Mr Speaker we are guaranteeing Medicare. Securing Medicare every year, every year, the Medicare levy and the amount from income tax that is required to pay for Medicare and the PBS will go into the Medicare guarantee fund."
The Budget contains several new taxes - one on the banks, and one on income earners through a rise in the Medicare levy.
That, combined with its focus on education and health, led to some newspapers saying it looked more like a Labor budget.
Crossbencher Cory Bernardi, a former member of the Coalition, says the comparison is fair.
"All the things that the Coalition condemned in the Labor government when they did it because they were tricky accounting measures, they've now adopted - albeit at a lesser scale - so it is a pale imitation of the Labor Budget."
But Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Scott Morrison's Budget doesn't look like anything Labor would have produced, citing tax cuts for big business as evidence.
"Oh that's complete rubbish. Even a crocodile wouldn't swallow that this is a Labor Budget. A Labor Budget wouldn't have given millionaires last night a $16,500 tax cut. A Labor Budget wouldn't give the largest companies in Australia and multinationals a tax cut."
Among the most controversial items in the Budget is a toughening of welfare rules.
Dole recipients will be subject to a 'three strikes' system and punished with reduced payments for missing appointments.
And 5,000 new welfare recipients will be drug tested in a trial, and threatened with a cashless debit card if they fail.
Greens leader Richard di Natale says the hardline stance won't work.
"I worked as a drug and alcohol doctor. I saw people who had problems with substance dependence, this will make the problem worse not better. When you're dependent on a drug, the natural cycle is that some people relapse. That's the medical definition of drug dependence. A chronic relapsing condition. Now, if you're getting treatment and you happen to fall into a hole and you relapse for a short period of time, taking away someone's income support is a recipe for driving them deeper into the hole that they've fallen in and they will end up becoming dependent."
