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Budget 'centrepiece' will be $14.6 billion cost-of-living package

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Budget 'centrepiece' will be $14.6 billion cost-of-living packageoriginal

A $14.6 billion four-year cost-of-living package will be the centrepiece of Labor’s second budget, which seeks to balance spending restraint with its election commitment to not leave people behind.

The latter days of preparing the budget – which was printed at the weekend – have seen mounting pressure, including from...

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