“Tonight, in the Coalition’s Budget In Reply speech, Peter Dutton will announce an elected Dutton-Littleproud Coalition Government will provide a 50 per cent cut per-litre to fuel excise for 12 months.

Under Labor, income taxes are up over 25 per cent. As this engorged government feasts on your income, using it to spend on largesse that exacerbates the cost-of-living crisis, Labor tosses Australians a daily morsel of their tax back.

It is holding farming communities back, and, I've got to say, they are distressed. Labor are trying to convert Mallee into an industrial wasteland, taking away its primary industry: a sustainable, productive, agricultural industry.

... we seem to still have inconsistencies in how regional Australians are treated depending on the type of disaster and the state they live in.

“This is a budget with cheap, election eve tricks of a $5 a week tax cut and two $75 quarterly energy bill relief payments. Meanwhile, Labor’s government spending-driven home-grown inflation crisis will continue.”

"I have witnessed good people on both sides of the debate forget their most basic human kindnesses in the midst of all of this. Is this really who we are?"

The list of pain for Australians, particularly regional Australians, after three long years of Labor goes on.

This hypocritical position—where wild dogs are seen as endangered, with no scientific evidence, and sheep are left to die in pain—beggars belief. Astoundingly, animal activists are dead silent on the mutilation and torture of livestock.

“This is a tricky budget from a tricky government that seeks to deflect blame for rivers of red ink while delivering nothing for regional Australia,” Dr Webster said.