Angus Taylor's budget reply address contained "a lot to build on", according to Sky News' Andrew Bolt, Sharri Markson and Ross Greenwood, but the trio cautioned the Opposition Leader still had work to do to win over Australians.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has been grilled on a key campaign pledge that a Liberal Party review said spelt doom for Peter Dutton.

Angus Taylor has vowed to index income tax brackets to inflation if he wins the next election, using his first budget reply speech to roll out a $22.5bn pitch to workers as he aims to restore the Coalition as a viable electoral force.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has committed a Coalition government to phase in income tax indexation under a “tax back guarantee” that he says “will fully protect all taxpayers from inflation”.

Pauline Hanson has been abruptly silenced while responding to the federal budget, just after the Opposition Leader drew a hard line on immigration.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor vows his high-stakes budget reply marks the beginning of a major fight against Labor’s tax, energy and migration policies.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has committed a Coalition government to phase in income tax indexation under a “tax back guarantee” that he says “will fully protect all taxpayers from inflation”. In his budget reply on Thursday night, Taylor described the plan, which would cost $22.5 billion over the forward estimates, as “generational tax reform”.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has claimed Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has “no solutions” before stating Mr Taylor is not taken seriously by his own party.