
Jim Chalmers and Jane Hume on Labor’s first full-year budget
Australian Politics
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The Budget and the Coalition's Measures to Ease the Cost of Living
There weren't a lot of big spending measures in Peter Dutton's budget reply. Is the budget just so tight that people shouldn't expect a whole lot of extra support? Well, I think that there are lots of different angles to which from which you can come to this question. And of course, we want to reduce the cost of living because when you reduce the Cost of Living, you increase the standards of living. That should be the objective of any government. Sustained increases in the standard of living of its citizens and it can be done with many ways.
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