Deferral means major government advertising campaigns can continue, but government will also have to face budget estimates grillingLabor to ramp up pressure in estimates after election campaign delayedLabor plans on ramping up the pressure against the government through the coming budget estimates hearings, with the election campaign’s official start seemingly delayed for another week. Delaying the election a week means more than $4 million of partisan ads funded by the tax payer. “We’ll continue to spend on government advertising just like the Labor party spent half a billion dollars on government advertising,” he said. 25 May, a date first reported in the Sunday Telegraph, is also possible, if the electoral commission was given extra resources to count votes ahead of the Senate election deadline. On the downside for the government, the Senate is scheduled to continue with budget estimates this week, hearings that could potentially be damaging for the Coalition.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2019 23:29 UTC