View from The Hill: Chalmers’ budget delivers modestly to the vulnerable while keeping the inflation ogre in mind
Lukas Coch/AAP This budget is the culmination of a tug of war between the government’s imperative to fight inflation and
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Author: Michelle Grattan News Desk
Now it’s Labor promising the budget will be (briefly) back in black
The budget projects an improvement of more than $143 billion over four years, compared to the Coalition’s final budget, brought down in March last year by Josh Frydenberg …
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View from The Hill: Budget ‘centrepiece’ will be $14.6 billion cost-of-living package
original A $14.6 billion four-year cost-of-living package will be the centrepiece of Labor’s second budget, which seeks to balance spending
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Budget shows real wages expected to start growing early next year and promises effort to ‘shift the needle’ in disadvantaged communities
Tuesday’s budget will forecast a growth in real wages of three quarters of a percentage point over the year to June 2024. This is an upgrade of half of a percentage point since the October budget …
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Controversial ParentsNext program to be scrapped next year
Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, said women around the country had been telling the government the program “is punitive, counterproductive and causes harm” …
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Government to spend $11.3 billion over four years to fund 15% pay rise for aged care workers
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said that “for too long, those working in aged care have been asked to work harder for longer without enough reward, but with this budget that changes” …
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Some projects in $120 billion federal infrastructure pipeline set to be scrapped
The infrastructure pipeline includes rail and road projects in the capitals as well as rail and road construction and upgrades in regional and outback areas …
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Health and housing measures announced ahead of budget, and NDIS costs in first ministers’ sights
The May 9 budget will include a $2.2 billion suite of measures to seek to ease pressures in primary health care and hospitals, as well as containing initiatives directed towards the crisis in the rental… …
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Grattan on Friday: The government invited ambit claims for the budget and now it will be judged against them
Managing expectations before a budget is always tricky. Two committees are making this especially so for Treasurer Jim Chalmers ahead of his second budget. …
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor MP Marion Scrymgour on the Voice and the need for a new NT jobs program
In this podcast, Michelle Grattan and Marion Scrymgour discuss Alice Springs, the Voice and other issues facing the Northern Territory. …
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