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Albanese budget scraps ‘risky’ Coalition plan to underwrite new power generation

Exclusive: Scheme had been criticised as a ‘slush fund’ that could have cost billions and pushed up power prices

The Guardian - AU

Non-govt Vic schools promised $700m boost

Victorian Labor is beating its election drum on education for a second successive day, promising $717 million for low-fee Catholic and independent schools.

AAP

Budget goal to build one million new homes

One million new homes will be built as part Labor's plan to bring together different sectors to boost investment in affordable housing.

The New Daily

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Jim Chalmers says the Coalition is responsible for $1 trillion of debt in the federal budget. Is that correct?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the budget is "heaving with a trillion dollars in Liberal Party debt". Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

All eyes on Canberra as first Chalmers budget sets the stage for federal Labor

What will Dr Jim prescribe us tonight?

Newcastle Herald

Labor hints at more controls on energy sector – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Building Better Regions Fund applicants rejected ahead of federal budget

A remote shire expects to fork out more money getting up major projects after its two applications to a Commonwealth funding stream were among those thrown out.

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Paul Bongiorno: A budget to reset the big arguments

The Albanese government tells us it has taken to heart the admonition that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The New Daily

Call for Hunter to retain budget funding for key projects

The Albanese government says it will target politically motivated grants programs and delay infrastructure projects to help cut spending.

Newcastle Herald

Here's what we know about the Albanese government's budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has spent the last few months lowering voters' expectations about this budget, saying it can't be a spend-athon.

ABC News

Chalmers braces for budget belt tightening

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled a budget that includes cost of living relief and down payments on election promises, but warns of hard decisions to come.

AAP

Budget and workplace laws centre stage

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his first budget this week, while proposed workplace relations and data breach laws will also be introduced to parliament.

AAP

Mark Dreyfus refuses to say when Labor added high bar for public hearings to anti-corruption bill

Attorney general accused of using public interest immunity ‘improperly’ and adding exceptional circumstances test as ‘political decision’

The Guardian - AU

Budget deficit this financial year to be $36.9 billion

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the budget bottom line will be more than $40 billion better over the four-year forward estimates in total than previously forecast.

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Newcastle Herald

Plans lodged for four-storey childcare at The Junction

The proponent Stirling Property Funds, which operates the shopping centre, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tillys to run the centre.

Newcastle Herald

Public servants know 'three-fifths of bugger all': Littleproud

The Labor government will scrap a key Coalition funding program, replacing it with two new grants programs.

The Conversation

Labor's love lost: the tide is turning on private ownership of electricity grids

The promise by the Andrews government to reintroduce public enterprise to Victoria’s electricity industry, through a revived State Electricity Commission, is something of a shock.

The Guardian - AU

Lidia Thorpe to refer herself to privileges committee over relationship with ex-bikie

Greens senator’s move heads off hostile referral by Coalition over possible perceived conflict of interest due to former role on law enforcement committee

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Budget tips $1b into regional grant revamp

Two new regional grants programs will be introduced by the Albanese government in the upcoming budget, to improve transparency of decision making.

ABC News

Why are we having a fourth budget in two years?

Budgets are typically handed down once a year in May but the last few years have seen the budget timetable thrown out the window and the financial plans delivered at all different times of the year. Here's why.

AAP

Vic schools, kindies promised almost $1.6b

Victorian Labor has promised almost $1.6 billion for upgrades of government schools and kindergartens, as well as plans for 25 new schools, if re-elected.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Deficits and debt are about politics, not economics

Chalmers' budget has no surpluses, only deficit and debt. His “big national conversation” needs to be about why that’s OK.

The Canberra Times

Canberra universities to get budget funding

They will receive funding for 345 student places.

AAP

Labor gears up to hand down first budget

Soaring inflation and almost a trillion dollars of debt will set the scene for the Albanese government's first budget.

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s ‘rorts and waste’ audit to deliver $10bn in savings to federal budget

Government will also shuffle funds and axe Coalition projects to free up $11bn for their own policy priorities

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