Peter Dutton vows to cut 'wasteful' government spending, says details to come after election

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Peter Dutton has vowed to cut overall government spending if elected to government, reiterating his plans to scale back the public service. Labor has called on the opposition leader to reveal the details of his plan.

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00:00Hoping for a little lunar luck to land an auspicious election result.

00:11Peter Dutton was in Sydney giving with one hand on this side of an election, while warning

00:18against government largesse on the other side.

00:21Would you cut spending?

00:22Where we see wasteful spending, yes we would.

00:25The opposition leaders vowing to shrink the public service and look at inefficiencies

00:29across the board, arguing it will help pay off debt and bring down inflation, but he

00:35won't detail those plans until after the election.

00:39We'll do that in government.

00:40We call on Peter Dutton to come clean on his cuts and what they mean.

00:44Parliament returns this week for the first sitting fortnight of the year and the government's

00:48aiming to get unfinished business passed, but that won't include a proposal for a beefed

00:53up environment watchdog because no deal's been sealed with the Coalition or the crossbench.

00:59The sittings also provide the opposition with a platform to pursue the Prime Minister

01:03over anti-Semitism and what he knew about a caravan terror plot in Sydney.

01:08If the Prime Minister of our country is not across what was potentially the biggest terrorist

01:12attack in our country's history, essentially until the public found out about it, I think

01:16that is an absolute abrogation of his responsibility.

01:20Peter Dutton is always trying to politicise these issues.

01:24He's always looking for conflict and culture wars.

01:28Conflict seems certain in what could be the final sitting fortnight before the upcoming election.

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