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What’s inside Labor’s first budget?

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The Budget Is About Building for the Longer Term

New policies have been largely offset across this year and next to avoid adding to inflation when price pressures are most acute. It sounds like what's happening here is an attempt to reframe the budget away from the idea of one off grants or handouts into a document that really lays out long term investments. So, how well that goes over with people is another question as we head into some pretty difficult economic times.

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