Alex Bainbridge writes new analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office聽has found that the cost of the 鈥淪tage 3鈥 tax cuts will be $313 billion over 10 years 鈥斅燼 huge increase on the $254 billion previously estimated.
Australian federal budgets
Episode 8: 麻豆传媒 journalists Ben Radford and Isaac Nellist take you through the latest news from Australia and around the world.
It was notable that聽聽Treasurer Jim Chalmers didn鈥檛 mouth the words 鈥渃limate action鈥澛爓hile spruiking the budget. Alex Bainbridge argues that鈥檚 because it didn鈥檛 contain a聽plan for the climate transition we need.
Labor鈥檚 threat to slash-and-burn NDIS funding gives the lie to Jim聽Chalmers鈥 claim that the budget would offer 鈥渕ore help for some of the most vulnerable in our community鈥, argues Graham Matthews.
Isaac Nellist writes that聽Labor鈥檚 budget is a huge disappointment for many, but especially young people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, surging rents and expensive education.
Labor's budget betrays renters, job seekers and people doing it tough. It leaves millions stuck in poverty while billionaires get tax cuts, argues Sue Bull.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is looking forward to the federal budget with dollar signs in its eyes, argues Liam Cross.
Under significant pressure Labor is signalling it will raise the rate of the JobSeeker payment in the federal budget 鈥 but only for those aged over 55. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Antipoverty Centre鈥檚 Kristin O鈥機onnell: 鈥楾he welfare system is stealing people鈥檚 present and future鈥
Welfare recipients, anti-poverty campaigners and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese鈥檚 electoral office to demand he urgently commit to raising JobSeeker. Isaac Nellist reports.
For those of us forced to live with it, Labor鈥檚 first budget since 2013 is both a missed opportunity and a threat of worse things to come, argues聽Graham Matthews.
As is always the case, there was plenty of money for corporate welfare and war but peanuts for social justice and the environment in this year's budget, write Peter Boyle.
Socialist Alliance candidate for the Geelong seat of Corio聽Sue Bull聽says聽the one-off $250 cost-of-living payment for pensioners and others struggling to survive on welfare was "an insult".
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