OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be working with an "L-plate cabinet" in the lead-up to the federal budget in 50 days' time.
Ms Gillard will announce a ministry reshuffle in Canberra at noon (AEDT) on Monday, following the resignations of ministers Martin Ferguson, Chris Bowen and Kim Carr and the sacking of Simon Crean following last week's botched leadership challenge.
Mr Abbott said the new ministry would be inexperienced at a time when Labor was under pressure to deliver a "responsible, honest budget" for 2013/14.
"This is quite a challenge for the government, given that the budget will be prepared with some of Labor's most respected and most competent members on the backbench rather than on the frontbench," he told reporters in Sydney on Monday.
"It is going to be very much an L-plate cabinet.
"There will be people in the cabinet who will be confronted with budget-making for the first time in their careers."
Mr Abbott said the new ministry would include the sixth small business minister in less than three years, after Mr Bowen stood down on Friday.
Mr Abbott said his team had "stability and continuity" and would examine the government's May 14 budget for honesty and responsibility.
The coalition's assessment of the budget would direct the timing of any no confidence motion in the government.
"There will be a no confidence motion put on the notice paper in budget week because it is time for the Australian people to have their say," Mr Abbott said.
"We've had the faceless men, we've had the backroom deals - now the Australian public deserve their say.
"The longer this government lasts the more damage it is doing to our country and to our economy."
Mr Abbott said his great fear was that the government would continue to play the class war card "even more fiercely in the future than they have in the past".
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said the budget must include honest assumptions for both revenue and economic forecasts, particularly for growth.
Mr Hockey said he would be looking at the revenue forecasts for both the carbon and mining taxes.
He said the carbon tax was supposed to deliver $9.4 billion in 2015 based on a European price of $29 a tonne, when the price was trading around $5 to $6 per tonne.
"The mining tax obviously is not going to raise anywhere near what was originally forecast," he said.
In the first six months of the mining tax, it raised just $126 million, when it was supposed to bring in $2 billion in its first year.
Mr Hockey says costs associated with asylum seekers have also blown out.
He also wants to see the end of "money shuffling" in the budget, pointing to the push back to next year of some $3 billion due from spectrum licence sales.
The opposition also wants to see the cost of implementing major items, such as the Gonski education funding reforms and the national disability insurance scheme.
"The government can no longer fudge it by claiming to deliver the scheme then have a token amount compared to what the real cost of the scheme is in the budget," Mr Hockey said.
"That means going beyond the forward estimates - they need to lay down the six- to eight-year costs when it is at the full operational level."
He said there must also be a strategy to stop government debt increasing.
"The government has to have a plan to deliver a surplus and start to pay down the debt," he said.
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