Government's budget promise to ease cost of living pressure just vote-buying, says Labor
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) and truck driver Julie Moore at the Western Sydney Airport site Source: AAP / BIANCA DE MARCHI/AAPIMAGE
With a federal election due before 21 May, the political stakes of this budget for both sides couldn't be higher.
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