Finance minister Katy Gallagher has given an early press conference after the Coalition’s costings were leaked and published by Nine publishing and News Corp.

Gallagher:

The Coalition’s costings today will show what a con job this has being. Five million people have voted and we will wait and see what is in there, but we can already see that there will be cuts, savage cuts, secret cuts that they’ve hidden all campaign cuts to Medicare essentially to pay for their nuclear reactor scheme and no dressing that up on the end of the election is going to change anything. We know students will pay more, there’ll be less housing, income taxes will rise, and I think it’s all a fraud, really, to pretend that you’re improving the budget bottom line when you know that you’re going to have to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to pay for nuclear reactors around the country.