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Katy Gallagher was also asked about the surge in One Nation, saying there was an obvious “reorganisation on the conservative side of politics”.
The finance minister said she wouldn’t comment too deeply on opinion polls, but the Labor government had attempted to address broad concerns from Australians with its latest budget.
I think there is a lot of uncertainty and worry about events that are happening across the world, the impact that that has here. Cost of living is the number one issue with anyone you talk to right now, and the government just has to remain focused on that, and that’s what we intend to do.
Opinion polls will come and go, they do. Our job is to make sure we’re making the right decisions for the right time and that it’s focused on the Australian people. And when there’s controversy about that, and we know we’ve had a lot of feedback around the budget, you know, our job is to front up and explain why we’ve taken those decisions.
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