Federal budget prompts speculation election will be held by end of year

Sky News Political Reporter Cameron Reddin says there are now a lot more people at Parliament House who believe an election will be held by the end of the year following the budget this week. “That budget on Tuesday night is the sort of budget that you would be handing down if an election was around the corner,” Mr Reddin told Sky News host Erin Molan. “We’re now creeping into the 12-month window, but there’s a lot more people around Parliament House now who think there’ll be an election by the end of the year, at the end of this week, than there were at the beginning of this week. “It had everything you’d want going into an election, the tax cuts, rebates on power bills, business incentives, optimistic economic forecasts, promising that inflation will be below three per cent by the end of this year.”