Q: In terms of what’s been announced so far in the lead-up to this election, we’ve seen billions in spending measures and not much on the savings side. Will you commit that before the election, you’ll reveal any additional savings that Labor would plan to make if it returned to Government? It won’t be something people find out from a Budget document if you’re re-elected?

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Chalmers:

That’s our economic plan. We made that clear last night. And if there are additional savings we’ll detail them at the appropriate time. Before the election? If they’re decided before the election we’ll reveal them then. The Budget is not 20 hours old yet. The best sense of what we plan to do in the economy is what’s in the Budget. A couple of billion dollars of savings already. It’s normal in the course of an election campaign for there to be subsequent announcements and subsequent decisions taken and we’ll outline them in the usual way.