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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nick Evershed, Andy Ball and Amy Remeikis

You be the Australian treasurer: raise welfare, reform the tax system, go for a federal budget surplus

The Albanese government is about to unveil a budget that faces the difficult task of providing assistance to people struggling with the high cost-of-living without causing additional inflation.

You can read more about the upcoming 2023 federal budget here, but if you’d like to make different decisions to the government, this interactive puts you in the treasurer’s seat.

You can include various spending and savings measures, such as increasing the tax paid by offshore gas companies, increasing the amount that welfare recipients receive, adjusting the controversial stage-three tax cuts and various other measures.

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