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Australians in for tough financial times as federal budget forecasts declining real wages and high living costs

Australians are facing a bleak couple of years, with Treasury forecasting dual woes of sustained high living costs and declining real wages. The budget bottom line has improved but Treasurer Jim Chalmers is warning of tough decisions in coming months.

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Training central to Labor jobs, wages plan

The Albanese government will fund almost half a million fee-free TAFE places and 20,000 new university spots as part of its plan to boost jobs and wages.

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Two years to go before wages rise

The gloomy state of the economy will weigh on household budgets with a boost to real wages not expected until at least mid-2025.

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Hip pocket pain still worries Canberrans

With 10 kids in total, eight living at home, Paul Buckley has a range of problems he would like the Albanese government to address

The Canberra Times

Federal budget to include plan to build 1 million homes by end of the decade, as Labor seeks to mitigate housing crisis

In his first budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will outline the government's plan to increase housing supply over five years from 2024.

ABC News

$350m to kickstart housing affordability

Australians priced out of the rental market are set to benefit from a $350 million affordable housing scheme included in the federal budget.

AAP

Budget 2022: Chalmers promises five-point plan for cost of living relief — as it happened

Labor has delivered the second federal budget of the year, announcing a plan for cost of living, wages and housing.

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You be the treasurer: scrap the stage-three tax cuts, spend money, or pay down the federal budget deficit

Tax cuts for high-income earners, build a bullet train, add dental to Medicare or build more social housing? You decide with our interactive guide

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

The Guardian - AU

Non-govt Vic schools promised $700m boost

Victorian Labor is beating its election drum on education for a second successive day, promising $717 million for low-fee Catholic and independent schools.

AAP

Budget goal to build one million new homes

One million new homes will be built as part Labor's plan to bring together different sectors to boost investment in affordable housing.

The New Daily

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.

ABC News

All eyes on Canberra as first Chalmers budget sets the stage for federal Labor

What will Dr Jim prescribe us tonight?

Newcastle Herald

Labor hints at more controls on energy sector – as it happened

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Building Better Regions Fund applicants rejected ahead of federal budget

A remote shire expects to fork out more money getting up major projects after its two applications to a Commonwealth funding stream were among those thrown out.

The New Daily

Paul Bongiorno: A budget to reset the big arguments

The Albanese government tells us it has taken to heart the admonition that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Newcastle Herald

Call for Hunter to retain budget funding for key projects

The Albanese government says it will target politically motivated grants programs and delay infrastructure projects to help cut spending.

ABC News

Here's what we know about the Albanese government's budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has spent the last few months lowering voters' expectations about this budget, saying it can't be a spend-athon.

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Chalmers braces for budget belt tightening

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled a budget that includes cost of living relief and down payments on election promises, but warns of hard decisions to come.

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Budget and workplace laws centre stage

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his first budget this week, while proposed workplace relations and data breach laws will also be introduced to parliament.

The Guardian - AU

Mark Dreyfus refuses to say when Labor added high bar for public hearings to anti-corruption bill

Attorney general accused of using public interest immunity ‘improperly’ and adding exceptional circumstances test as ‘political decision’

The Conversation

Budget deficit this financial year to be $36.9 billion

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the budget bottom line will be more than $40 billion better over the four-year forward estimates in total than previously forecast.

Newcastle Herald

Plans lodged for four-storey childcare at The Junction

The proponent Stirling Property Funds, which operates the shopping centre, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tillys to run the centre.

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 Conversation

Labor's love lost: the tide is turning on private ownership of electricity grids

The promise by the Andrews government to reintroduce public enterprise to Victoria’s electricity industry, through a revived State Electricity Commission, is something of a shock.

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