DEAR News Of The Area,

ALISON Penfold, National Party candidate for Lyne, claims ‘my plan is to fight to restore our standard of living’.

I find this unbelievable given that the Liberal and National parties have voted against most of the Labor Party’s measures to ease cost of living pressures and improve living standards.

This includes cheaper medicines, tax cuts for every taxpayer, 100,000 fee-free TAFE places in areas of critical skill shortage, three increases to the minimum wage, pay rises for workers in aged care and child-care, $300 per household power bill relief, relief to higher education costs, and establishment of 82 fee-free Medicare Urgent Care Centres.

What alarms me further is the likelihood that a Coalition government will roll all these back.

Further Peter Dutton has stated he won’t be revealing any areas of cost cutting until after the election.

Regards,
Phillip COSTA,
Minimbah.