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Jim Chalmers

Just the start of budget repair hard yards

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.

Jim ChalmersFederal treasurer

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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.

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Jim Chalmers is the federal treasurer.

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