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‘Fodder for the chopping block’: Who needs to win and lose in federal budget

From tax cuts to slashing spending, here’s what to expect.

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Federal budget as it happened: Electricity and gas prices tipped to rise by 50 per cent

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is reportedly weighing up market intervention with power prices set to surge by 50 per cent over the next two years.

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

What the budget will tell us about just how grim next year will be

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What to watch for in the federal budget - and what it means for your hip pocket

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Australians are expecting a ‘bread and butter’ budget - but there are calls mounting for an ‘outsized bang for every buck spent’.

Massive tax breaks could soon roll out to millions of Aussies - but not everybody’s happy

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Impending tax cuts have quickly become a talking point of the upcoming federal budget - despite not due to come into effect for almost two more years. 

Elite private schools receiving millions in excess funding as public schools left short

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The NSW government is overfunding well-off private schools by hundreds of millions of dollars while underfunding the state’s public schools by billions per year, according to a new report. File image.