Then there is this from Angus Taylor:

The Prime Minister’s cruel hoax of a Budget offers cash-strapped Australian families 70 cents a day in 15 months time. Prime Minister, when Australians with a mortgage are $50,000 worse off under Labor, isn’t this a Budget for the next five weeks not the next five years?

Don’t be surprised if the Coalition comes up with their own tax cut promises tomorrow, but Greg Jericho has looked at the numbers and can’t see how that would happen without massive cuts.

The opposition is right in that this budget is designed for the election campaign – you are already seeing the lines – three years of tax cuts, energy rebates, investing in the future yadda, yadda, which will be what the election campaign shapes up around.

But it is equally true that what the Coalition is offering is a fantasy. There is nothing behind its headlines and those policies it does manage to throw up get contradicted by its own members within 24 hours.