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Politics
Matthew Elmas

MYSTERIOUS: Battleground seats hit by false labor election ads - What They Never Told You

A Labor ad campaign targeting battleground seats is falsely claiming that Peter Dutton has said he'll cut $350 billion in spending if the coalition wins government.

AAP FactCheck has identified thousands of dollars of funding for federal election advertisements in seats including Gorton and Hawke in Melbourne's west and Lyons in Tasmania.

The ads claim that Mr Dutton has cut billions from hospitals, before claiming he has said he'll "cut $350 billion more" over an image of a person lying in a medical crash cart.

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