The Opposition Leader has refused to say which public service jobs he would cut and where despite flagging as many as 41 thousand positions are at risk. Peter Dutton has visited the marginal seat of McEwen on the northern outskirts of Melbourne where he met a young family struggling with the cost of living.
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00:00Peter Dutton has been on message this morning talking about his fuel excise policy, halving
00:08the fuel excise and his gas policy which he says will bring down the cost of energy for
00:13people in the outer suburbs.
00:15That's where he's been today.
00:16He's been to two electorates in the outskirts of Melbourne.
00:20Earlier this morning he visited homeowners in the seat of McEwen which is one of those
00:24seats that the Coalition wants to win back.
00:27He's talked about his fuel excise policy.
00:29He says that will help commuters getting to work each day.
00:33He's also faced a number of questions about public service cuts and has refused to say
00:38which jobs out of the 41,000 that he says are too many will be cut.
00:43I think it's important for us to live within our means as a government and if there is
00:47waste and there is bloating of the bureaucracy then we need to make sure that we're getting
00:54money into more GPs.
00:56We've made a big announcement in relation to mental health.
00:59We've got a $5 billion plan to build 500,000 more homes and as the Howard government did
01:05when they came in, in 96, they had to clean up a Labor mess.
01:10That's the reality of it.
01:11This afternoon the Opposition Leader has committed $6.2 million for a headspace in Melton.
01:18That's in Melbourne's western suburbs.
01:20He says that there is a crisis in youth mental health and it's important to have early intervention
01:25for young Australians in particular.
01:28So far Peter Dutton has campaigned in New South Wales, in Victoria and in Queensland.
01:34We're standing at the airport, there's a plane waiting, where will we go next?
01:37We will find out.