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Jim Chalmers just handed down his first federal budget, but did he get his facts straight?

Did the Treasurer get his facts straight in Labor's first budget speech in a decade? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

Everything you need to know about Labor's first budget in 6 charts

This Budget makes hard decisions for hard times.

The Conversation

Budget cuts and Morrison’s pledges: where are the biggest savings coming from?

At least $9bn of regional, environmental and infrastructure spending has been slashed in Labor’s October budget – here are the projects that will miss out

The Guardian - AU

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Labor embraces a world of bigger government

Tonight’s budget reflects Labor’s ambitions for active government, and electoral enthusiasm for it. But the puzzle of how to pay for it remains unresolved.

Crikey

Chalmers sees a grim world ahead — or at least wants us to

If the government has so much extra revenue, why is the long-term deficit much worse now than it was in April?

Crikey

Petroleum Resource Rent Rip-Off — fossil fuel rent taxes to fall amid global price surge

Like the Coalition before it, Labor refuses to do anything to fix the broken PRRT scheme.

Crikey

Labor pledges extra $200m in Australian aid for Ukraine and $500m for veterans in budget

Albanese government unveils big boost to Pacific aid partly offset by axing Coalition’s agriculture visa while sparing defence from major cuts

The Guardian - AU

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This is a federal budget of no surprises – designed to be sober, to build trust in the hope of better things to come

Labor’s 2022 budget is about a new government starting as it means to continue, then crossing its fingers and hoping continuing like that is actually possible

The Guardian - AU

Labor overhauls Australia’s climate spending in budget and sounds warning on future costs

Climate and environment programs in 2022-23 partly funded by redirecting $746.9m from those promised by Coalition

The Guardian - AU

Chalmers pledges budget ‘responsibility’ to make up for ‘wasted decade’

After an election campaign spent hammering the Coalition on support for working people, Labor has handed down a budget based on ‘hard decisions for hard times’.

Crikey

Chalmers’ budget debut enlivens a ‘safe change’ agenda and lays the groundwork for more

Jim Chalmers promised a “bread-and-butter” budget, but he is unlikely to have disappointed Labor’s faithful by delivering it.

The New Daily

ABC given $83.7m to reverse Coalition’s funding cuts but little help for arts in 2022 budget

Australian federal budget provides $500,000 for feasibility study into the expansion of Double J to FM frequencies

The Guardian - AU

Federal budget 2022 summary – winners and losers: who will benefit and who was left behind?

The governor general, Bob Katter, jobseekers, seniors and Double J listeners – everyone has a stake in the federal budget, but some have done better than others

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers’ 2022-23 budget mantra: whatever you do, don’t fuel inflation

Terrified by the prospect of further stoking the worst inflation in three decades, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have delivered a budget that takes out of the economy about as much as it pumps into it.

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The Conversation

Jim Chalmers' 'restraint' budget the first stage of a marathon for the treasurer

Jim Chalmers’ inaugural budget plants its feet as solidly as possible in the shifting sands of difficult and unpredictable international and local conditions.

ABC News

Federal budget 2022: Winners and Losers

It's the second federal budget of the year, but this time Treasurer Jim Chalmers is delivering Labor's first in close to a decade. Here's where it plans to spend its money and where it wants to rein things in.

The Conversation

‘The beginning of something new’: how the 2022-23 budget does things differently

Treasurer Jim Chalmers told reporters on Tuesday his first budget was “the beginning of something new and responsible”.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese budget scraps ‘risky’ Coalition plan to underwrite new power generation

Exclusive: Scheme had been criticised as a ‘slush fund’ that could have cost billions and pushed up power prices

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Jim Chalmers says the Coalition is responsible for $1 trillion of debt in the federal budget. Is that correct?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the budget is "heaving with a trillion dollars in Liberal Party debt". Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

Newcastle Herald

Public servants know 'three-fifths of bugger all': Littleproud

The Labor government will scrap a key Coalition funding program, replacing it with two new grants programs.

The Guardian - AU

Lidia Thorpe to refer herself to privileges committee over relationship with ex-bikie

Greens senator’s move heads off hostile referral by Coalition over possible perceived conflict of interest due to former role on law enforcement committee

The Guardian - AU

Australian government to restore powers to strip citizenship from terrorism suspects

New laws to strip citizenship from dual citizens suspected of terrorism are likely to pass parliament after Coalition indicated support

ABC News

Why are we having a fourth budget in two years?

Budgets are typically handed down once a year in May but the last few years have seen the budget timetable thrown out the window and the financial plans delivered at all different times of the year. Here's why.

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s ‘rorts and waste’ audit to deliver $10bn in savings to federal budget

Government will also shuffle funds and axe Coalition projects to free up $11bn for their own policy priorities

The Guardian - AU

Law governing Bureau of Meteorology must change to reflect climate crisis, says former chief

Exclusive: Rob Vertessy says there was a ‘baked-in cautiousness’ in the bureau about discussing climate change under the Coalition

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