Australia’s Opposition Pledges to Improve Budget by $9 Billion

Peter Dutton, center, in Carrick, Australia, on May 1. Photographer: Dan Peled/Getty Images 
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Australia’s budget bottom line will be improved by about A$14 billion ($9 billion) over four years under a Liberal-National Coalition government, the opposition’s economic spokespeople said as they unveiled plans to cut the bureaucracy and scrap the Labor government’s tax cuts.