Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on Budget 2018
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

With the government’s election focused budget released it’s now a tax showdown between the two sides.
Finance minister Mathias Cormann says the government is committed to the whole of their seven-year personal tax relief plan and is determined the three-part package not be broken up.
Meanwhile, shadow finance minister Jim...