PineappleCrusher_ Government Delivers Budget, $2.4b Surplus
Wednesday 15 August 2018
Staff Reporters

CANBERRA The Liberal Coalition Government has this week submitted its long-awaited budget to the House, with increased funding for health and education, and a $1.2billion surplus.

Speaking in the House of Representatives, dyljam, the independent Member for Denison who is supplying confidence and supply to the Government, stated "I am pleased the see that this Liberal Government has finally delivered [a budget]."

"I am pleased to see that this Government is delivering a $2.4 Billion cash surplus. I am also pleased to see this Government honour its agreement of not cutting spending to health or education."

Mr dyljam also criticised the lack of economic accountability by successive previous governments, who all failed to pass a budget.

"Both sides of parliament have failed, quite simply put, to do their job. We have seen astonishing ignorance from both the left and the right. Socialists, Liberty, Labor and the Greens. These parties have all magnificently failed in their duty to the Australian people in the past few governments. In fact, it would appear that the last budget passed by parliament was that of the former Australian Democrats-Greens coalition."

However, not all Members were as supportive of the budget. Member for Batman and Labour's Shadow Treasurer was highly critical of the Liberal Coalition's budget, criticising infrastructire spending, ASIO funding, and the lack of funds being directed towards environmental protection.

"The PineappleCrusher_ Government is a fiscal risk to this country in its misunderstanding of the differences between expenses and capital investment."

Meanwhile, Shadow Minister and Member for Kingston u/PM-ME-SPRINKLES also spoke out against the lack of action towards addressing poverty and lack of spending on women's sports.

"We have Australians in poverty in this country but instead of helping them we instead leave them to the rats." they stated.

No Government Ministers nor the Leader of the Opposition have made any comment on the Budget in parliament at the time this article was published.

Note: An earlier version of this article did not state that the Member for Batman was also Labour's Shadow Treasurer. We apologise for this oversight.