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Jim Chalmers and Jane Hume on Labor’s first full-year budget

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The Budget for the NDIS

There are big savings in this budget, particularly from limiting the growth in the NDIS. Are those savings believable? And are there other big saving measures that you're working on down the line? I'm thinking particularly of infrastructure, which there wasn't a lot of reprofiling or reprioritisation in this budget,. but we know there's a review that could result in that in future. Well, we're doing a heap of work with the states and territories and with the relevant agencies to make sure we're getting value for money. But the $120 billion that we've committed to over 10 years will stay the same.

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