The Financial Review’s economics editor’s six go-to measures to look for in Tuesday’s budget, which is Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ fourth one and comes on the eve of the federal election.
In the 2024 budget lock-up, from left, your correspondent, political editor Phil Coorey, then editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. Rhett Wyman
Federal budgets are, it is sometimes joked in Canberra, like the AFL grand final for economics journalists. Reporters are locked away at Parliament House, poring over hundreds of pages of budget documents.
The media receives the official budget papers under embargo about six hours before the outside world finds out what’s in the nation’s fiscal documents.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/what-i-m-watching-for-in-this-year-s-budget-20250319-p5lkqe
