POLICE will have sweeping new powers to demand IDs and order people to leave airports in a security crackdown designed to close a loophole currently preventing authorities from pursuing criminals and terrorists before they fly.
IMMIGRANTS would be forced to stay long-term in country towns to ease the growing pains in overcrowded centres on the eastern seaboard, under a policy that could also make small capitals such as Adelaide a top destination.
NEW migrants who promise to live in the bush when they arrive in Australia will be “bound” to stay there under changes to visas that will stop them from moving to larger cities like Sydney or Melbourne once they’re granted permanent visas.
The federal election battlelines have crystallised this week with the delivery of the Turnbull Budget centred on tax cuts and economic repair and its antithesis in Bill Shorten’s classic class warfare pitch to middle-income voters.
A mini-budget early next year before the federal election is a live option being considered by the Turnbull government.
BILL Shorten wants the public to buy into his Budget reply vision in the same week he has been exposed for misleading that same public in the dual citizenship debacle.
OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten has for months misled the Australian public after continuously claiming Labor’s vetting processes were thorough, strict and airtight. None of his MPs could possibly be dual citizens, he repeated.
BILL Shorten has refused to apologise for his repeated claims that no Labor politicians could be dual citizens because of the party’s strict vetting processes but the Labor leader has now been left with egg on his face.
SCOTT Morrison has promised to finally bring the federal Budget back into surplus for the first time in a decade while unveiling a radical seven-year plan to hand out $140 billion in tax cuts, starting with up to $1060 in cash bonuses for five million families.
MALCOLM Turnbull is back in the ring. The Prime Minister and Treasurer Scott Morrison have managed to outmanoeuvre Labor with a Budget that will prove popular, thanks to generous tax-breaks, while economically responsible in its early return to surplus and spending restraint.
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