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Treasurer Jim Chalmers must hand down a Budget that helps all Australians. The only way to do this is to rein in spending to tackle inflation.

A 20-year-old today earning an average salary will be caught in the net of Labor’s doubling of superannuation taxes.

Delivery of the Picton Bypass and Southern Highlands overtaking rail infrastructure projects has been put at risk by the Albanese Labor Government’s funding review of New South Wales infrastructure projects.

Today’s decision by the Reserve Bank to increase interest rates for the tenth time under the Labor Government will be difficult news for Australians struggling with the rising cost of living.

The Albanese Labor Government does not have a plan that will contain inflation.

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released by the ABS shows Labor’s policies aren’t working to bring inflation down and will not make life easier for struggling Australian families.

Labor’s second Budget will be an opportunity to correct the mistakes of its first.


When Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his second Budget in May, he has the opportunity to  take real action to help reduce inflation and the pressures on Australian families and 
businesses.

The Coalition welcomes the release of the Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia: “An RBA fit for the future”.

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor said it was enormously important Australia has an independent, credible and capable Reserve Bank.

Today’s labour force figures highlight the need for Labor to use the May budget to put downward pressure on inflation to take the pressure off struggling families being crippled by out-of-control cost of living pressures.

Anthony Albanese must guarantee he will not take away WA’s fair share of GST, after a prominent Australian think tank called for it to be scrapped to pay for Labor’s increased spending.

Today’s decision by the Reserve Bank to hit pause on rising interest rates is welcome relief for the three million Australians with a mortgage but the pain hitting household budgets is far from over.   

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