"While those injured were being treated, this senator sought to further fan the flames of division. How pathetic. How shameful," she said. 

"This motion makes it clear he doesn't speak for us." 

Australian Conservatives senator Cory Bernardi agreed that Anning's comments were "flat out wrong". But also lamented the "political opportunism" that has arisen from them. 

He says accusing someone of hate speech is a "defence of the weak to mask criticism". 

i. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes...freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance",

ii. religious persecution knows no geographic or sectarian boundaries and it afflicts religious believers of virtually every faith, on every continent,

iii. the strong statements made across the nation, led by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, that violence such as that witnessed in Christchurch is an affront on our common humanity,

iv. in the face of attacks designed to sow division, our responses must bring us together, recognising an attack onany religion is an attack on all religions and that we all share a responsibility to unite, condemn and defeat such an attackon our common values and way of life; and

(b)   calls on all Australians to stand against hate and to publicly, and always, condemn actions and comments designed to incite fear and distrust

(c)   endorses the statement of the Imam Hasan Centre following the attacks in Christchurch that: “It is times like this that we lose hope and doubt humanity, when people of faith come under attack in such a way, it shows us how low humanity can fall. However, it never ceases to amaze how far humanity can rise after such despicable events"

(d)   censures Senator Anning for his inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to attribute blame to victims of a horrific crime and to vilify people on the basis of religion, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people.

This is the payoff for the community from spending discipline and hard work.

Business has continued to do the heavy-lifting in this budget – which again is proof that when business thrives, Australia thrives.

Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie:

The government confirms its vision for our country is cuts, tax cuts for people who don’t need them, guaranteeing more cuts in future to essential services and our safety net for people who rely on them.

None of the tax cuts benefit people on the lowest incomes, as one third of households, including low-paid workers, pensioners and people looking for paid work, do not have enough income to pay tax.

Shorten also indicated that Labor would expand the tax offset by giving more to workers on lower incomes, although the cost of this is yet to be spelt out.

“We have also said that for people under $40,000 a year, which is over two million people, the majority of whom are women, we will do a slightly better tax refund for them,” he said.

“In terms of their further stages, we’ll study their stage two.”

Stage two of the plan increases the top threshold of the 19 per cent tax bracket from $41,000 to $45,000, a big benefit to workers on all incomes above that level. This costs $48 billion over ten years.

Labor treasury spokesman Chris Bowen has slammed the third stage of the plan as “highly regressive” and made it clear Labor cannot support it. This stage costs $95 billion over ten years. It reduces the marginal tax rate from 32.5 to 30 per cent.

Morrison says he has committed to letting Shorten have his response.

“I committed to that last year, so why would that change?” he said on ABC radio this morning.

"When I decide to go out to the Governor- General then people will see that car drive to Yarralumla," he told Nine.

He confirmed this was new. The budget papers also show Newstart recipients were not originally included.

Community groups had rapidly criticised the decision.

"It wouldn't be the first time the government has tried to head off a bushfire," Bill Shorten told Sky News.

"Perhaps when they designed it, they should think about people."