The 2022 budget is just the beginning of the conversation we need to have as a country about our economic and fiscal challenges, and about the choices we need to make on what’s affordable and what’s fair.
This is a responsible budget that is right for the times and readies us for the future.
Our Labor government’s first budget does three things: It provides cost of living relief which is responsible, not reckless – to make life easier for Australians, without adding to inflation.