Sentences with phrase «harsh budget measures»

Although Hughes, the veteran Lib Dem MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, said he supported harsh budget measures to help deal with Britain's weak public finances, he indicated that he was prepared to table rebel amendments to promote fairness.

Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer has called on the government to take its harsher budget measures to an election.

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Are government ministers — and, to be fair, the Opposition leader — dissembling when they claim to be able to balance the budget without such harsh measures?

There is growing concern that harsh Federal Budget measures on health and other funding areas will put at risk efforts to close the gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Justin Mohamed said NACCHO the national organisation was «really worried» that the millions of dollars being cut from across Aboriginal affairs at the federal level, plus Budget measures like the co-payments and harsh cuts to unemployment support for young people, «could potentially push the closing the gap targets even further from reach.»