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Budget 08/05/2023

Single parents, pensioners, welfare recipients and low to middle-income households will be the big winners from a $14.6bn cost-of-living relief budget package, but Labor’s targeted cash splash will not ease the inflation pain for everyone. 

An attempt to rename the proposed new “Gadigal” metro station in Sydney in honour of Indigenous war hero Reg Saunders has been rejected. 

Victorian government schools have ramped up their education efforts to prevent ­another chroming tragedy in the wake of the death of 13-year-old Esra Haynes. 

More than 2700 new homes are set to be built in regional South Australia with the population of one riverside country town expected to swell.

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