$25bn spend-a-thon: Tax, attacks and stacks of cash at party launches

Email Anthony Albanese unveiled a surprise automatic tax deduction policy as both parties pledged vast sums for housing and tax relief at their campaign launches.

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PM Edition $25bn spend-a-thon: Tax, attacks and stacks of cash at party launches Anthony Albanese unveiled a surprise automatic tax deduction policy as both parties pledged vast sums for housing and tax relief at their campaign launches. READ MORE   Dutton’s campaign is a mirror of ALP’s Voice Peter Dutton and the Coalition went into this campaign with all the momentum and money and popular opinion on their side, but now it feels like the Voice campaign all over again, w... READ MORE   Dutton counters Albo’s $5 tax cut with $1200 cost-of-living sugar hit In his boldest pitch for votes since the start of the campaign, Peter Dutton has promised to give more than 10 million workers a one-off tax cut of as much as $1200 next year. 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