Federal election 2016: Welfare crackdown at centre of Coalition budget costings

By James Massola, Peter Martin
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:02pm, first published June 29 2016 - 8:20am

The Coalition has unveiled a $2.3 billion welfare crackdown, promised a minuscule $1.1 billion improvement to the budget bottom line over four years and dismissed suggestions it has run a "dunny block" re-election strategy.

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