Two weeks into the 2016 election, Labor Opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King claims the Government has cut billions from public hospital funding.

Labor Opposition Senate Leader Penny Wong claims the Government has tripled the budget deficit in two years, and increased net debt by $100 billion since coming to office.

Labor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims the 2016 federal budget will boost the take-home pay of millionaires while cutting payments for working mums, arguing that a mother earning $65,000 with two kids at high school would lose more than $4,500 in gov

Greens MP Adam Bandt has accused Labor of "begging" the Liberals for voter preferences in the leadup to the 2016 election, claiming he retained his Melbourne seat in 2013 under his own steam, without Liberal preference flows.

In response to accusations the Government was holding a defence industry roundtable during an election campaign, Industry Minister Christopher Pyne claimed that caretaker mode had not yet started.