Ask your questions about the 2026 Australian federal budget

Send us your budget questions and we’ll endeavour to get the answers from the budget papers, Treasury officials or the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, during the budget lock-up on Tuesday 12 May. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA

The federal budget is just around the corner and, although some information is already out there, you probably have some burning questions. We’d like to answer them for you.

Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget will be his most challenging, not least because it will be delivered in the middle of the biggest global oil shock in history.