Morning Mail: budget’s $14.6bn cost-of-living relief, tributes to Zonfrillo, second Texas tragedy

Anti-poverty advocates hope tomorrow’s budget will bring with it a rise to jobseeker as treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed new measures to ease cost-of-living pressure. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Good morning. The centrepiece of tomorrow’s federal budget will be a $14.6bn package of cost-of-living relief, paid for in part by savings of $17.8bn. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has confirmed there will be new measures in the cost-of-living package in tomorrow’s budget; while he hasn’t provided a breakdown, he’s previously hinted at “additional measures” for renters, and some are tipping a broad increase to the jobseeker payment.

Meanwhile, MasterChef Australia is back, King Charles’ coronation concert kicks off, and authorities investigate a pair of mass killings in Texas.