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Opposition leader criticises government policies including the price cap, which Treasury has estimated saved households $230 on power bills

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says allowing JobSeeker recipients to work more would be more beneficial than a $40 pay increase, but new research suggests not.

Since the May 9 budget, there have been polls from Resolve, Essential, Morgan and Newspoll. Labor has a large lead in all of these polls. It’s almost a year since Labor won the May 21 2022 election by a 52.1-47.9 national two party margin, but its honeymoon is continuing, and…

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The opposition leader says a plan to allow those on JobSeeker to work longer without losing payments would cost less.

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The Opposition believes these bald numbers prove the point: The jobs are there if only the bludgers (wink wink, nudge nudge) would step up.

"An underclass. That is what Mr Dutton has given us. That is his greatest legacy, the creation of a permanent underclass of unsuccessful asylum seekers.

A federal Newspoll, conducted May 11-13 from a sample of 1,516, is the first poll taken since the May 9 budget. It gave Labor a 55-45 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Labor (steady), 34% Coalition (up one),…