It’s becoming clear that when you step into the polling booth in just over two weeks you'll have quite a choice to make.

Do you buy Bill Shorten’s big taxing, big spending pledge to make Australia more fair, or Scott Morrison’s promise to get government out of the way of the economy so it can do its thing?

Mr Shorten started this week at his Labor campaign launch announcing an extraordinary $10 billion package to directly boost the wages of childcare workers as well as access to early education services for working families.

This week on Please Explain we're joined by The Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher, Nine political editor Chris Uhlmann, and senior economics writer Jess Irvine to sort through the numbers and figure out what makes dollars and sense.

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