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1 million homes target makes headlines, but can't mask modest ambition of budget's housing plans

Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. But parts of the package cast some doubt on the new government’s analysis…

The Conversation

Labor's Budget commitments to the Hunter need timely funding on the follow through

Thanks for the Budget Jim, now keep it coming

Newcastle Herald

Labor's new workplace relations bill proposes new laws around work flexibility, targets gender pay gap

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke will introduce Labor's Secure Jobs, Better Pay bill into Parliament, promising to "get wages moving".

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Budget missed chance for relief: Dutton

Peter Dutton has used his first budget reply speech to attack the lack of cost-of-living measures put forward by the government while inflation rises.

AAP

Labor moves to improve access to flexible work for parents, carers and older Australians

‘Secure jobs, better pay’ bill will legally require employers to try to reach flexible agreement with eligible workers

The Guardian - AU

Federal budget should have raised welfare payments amid cost-of-living crisis, recipients say

Advocates express deep unease about lack of action for people on income support and repeat calls to lift jobseeker rate to $73 a day

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s women are no longer seeing their calls for change dismissed as lacking ‘credibility’. Good

Women are central to economic prosperity. This federal budget offers a paradigm shift on gender inequality

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Opposition hits out at Labor’s ‘vanity’ budget

The shadow treasurer rejected the concept of the structural deficit at the heart of the budget and said the economy could be grown faster.

The New Daily

Anthony Albanese plays the long game

The sobriety of Budget 2022 reveals much about the political evolution of Anthony Albanese, Matthew Franklin writes.

The New Daily

Migration push means housing shortage remains, despite Labor’s budget fix

Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the government’s plan to accelerate the construction of new housing across the country.

The New Daily

The women's budget is headed in the right direction. But the policies still need work

The Labor federal government promised it would make women central to its first budget.

The Conversation

Indigenous voice budget funding welcomed

Financial commitments in the federal budget show the government is serious about Indigenous issues, a law academic who helped design the Uluru Statement says.

AAP

Australian voters were betrayed on energy prices, but not by Labor’s budget

Before things get totally hysterical over the next few days, let’s talk about what betrayal really looks like

The Guardian - AU

Independents join backlash against federal budget cuts to regional and infrastructure programs

Helen Haines and Zoe Daniel call for freed up funds to be reinvested as Sophie Scamps criticises $75m cut from Wakehurst Parkway upgrade

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Liberal party opposes Labor’s truth in political advertising and spending cap laws

Dispute between major parties in parliamentary inquiry sets up battle on electoral law before 2025 election

The Conversation

This was supposed to be a 'wellbeing budget' – so why does it feel like the arts have been overlooked?

The first Labor federal budget has come down, but the arts are almost nowhere to be seen.

The Conversation

Labor's 'sensible' budget leaves Australians short-changed on climate action. Here's where it went wrong

Treasurer Jim Chalmers last night delivered a budget he declared was “solid, sensible and suitable to the times”. But what does a sensible budget look like in a world that is fast running out of time on climate change?

AAP

Budget funds first Indigenous birth centre

Labor's election promise to build a $22.5m Indigenous-owned and run Birthing on Country Centre on the NSW South Coast was secured in the budget.

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Federal budget confirms funding for Paradise Dam rebuild amid water project cuts

The federal budget has withdrawn, reduced or deferred funds for several Queensland dams, but work on raising Paradise Dam's wall has been saved from the chopping block.

AAP

Food supply needs more focus say farmers

Farmers say Tuesday's budget doesn't do enough to increase food supply but have welcomed an injection in funds across the agriculture sector.

AAP

Carbon industry welcomes 'Bradbury budget'

The first Labor budget in 10 years has overhauled Australia's response to climate change, but it's just the beginning for market and industry participants.

The Guardian - AU

Progressives can learn from Rishi Sunak – be less reductive when engaging with migrant communities

People of colour are not an interest group – progressive causes must listen, engage and organise to win the battle for hearts and minds

AAP

'Appalling' spend on offshore processing

Many refugee advocates are outraged Labor will spend $632 million on offshore processing next financial year, $150 million more than the Morrison government.

Newcastle Herald

Business leaders welcome Hunter's budget 'success'

Newcastle Airport says it is "thrilled" to have funding for its new terminal building confirmed in Tuesday's federal budget, and the Hunter's peak business group has welcomed commitments to other large infrastructure projects.

AAP

Vic Labor ups ante on level crossings

A month out from polling day, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has committed to removing another 25 level crossing by 2030 under a re-elected Labor government.

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