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- Treasurer Jim Chalmers is selling it as a big reform budget that will tip the scales to make the tax system fairer for young Australians.
- But the war in Iran and the global fuel crisis is having a big impact on the health of the economy, with cost-of-living pain predicted to get worse.
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Link copied Share Share article In the first full budget since Labor's landslide election victory last year, the government is putting some money back in workers' pockets and increasing taxes on investors.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is selling it as a big reform budget that will tip the scales to make the tax system fairer for young Australians.
But the war in Iran and the global fuel crisis is having a big impact on the health of the economy, with cost-of-living pain predicted to get worse.
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