Peter Dutton outlines coalition position on budget

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COALITION POSITION ON FEDERAL BUDGET AND ECONOMY

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has outlined some budget measures the Liberal-National coalition will support, some it will oppose and a raft of alternative policies.

OPPOSED LABOR BUDGET MEASURES

* 10,000 rise in public servant numbers

* Rise in heavy vehicle user charge

* 1.5 million net overseas migration over five years

* Biosecurity levy on farmers

* Higher taxes on super balances over $3 million

SUPPORTED LABOR BUDGET MEASURES

* Extra spending in aged care 

* Reducing spending growth in the NDIS (but wants more detail)

* AUKUS security deal and extra defence spending

* Increasing bulk-billing incentives and cheaper medicines

* Expanding the parenting payment

* Boosting spending on the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children

* Raising rent assistance

COALITION POLICIES

* Allowing people to use their super to buy their first home

* Small-scale nuclear power

* Greater use and supply of gas

* Tax cap of 23.9 per cent of GDP in budget.

* Importer container levy to fund biosecurity measures

* Restore subsidised psychology sessions from 10 to 20

* $4 million for Ovarian Cancer Australia

* $5 million to review women-specific health items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule and corresponding treatments on the PBS

* Funding for the Safer Communities Fund

* Double size of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation

* Royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities

* Reinstatement of cashless debit card

* Crackdown on scams and financial fraud through new obligations on big digital companies

* Ban sports betting advertising during the broadcasting of games

* Allow job seekers to take home $300 a fortnight and retain the full JobSeeker allowance.