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Live: SA government hands down 2026 budget
Key takeaways
- Premier Peter Malinauskas and Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis on their way to deliver the 2026 state budget.
- Health spending now accounts for about one third of the state's budget.
- It's the first budget Tom Koutsantonis has delivered since he returned to the treasury portfolio last September.
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Premier Peter Malinauskas and Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis on their way to deliver the 2026 state budget. (ABC News: Che Chorley)
Link copied Share Share article South Australia's debt is projected to hit to more than $50 billion by 2029-30, but the state's treasurer has forecast $1.4 billion in operating surpluses over the same period.
Handing down the re-elected Malinauskas Government's first state budget this term, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said state debt remained "manageable", as billions of dollars continue to be ploughed into a new Women's and Children's Hospital and transport corridor through Adelaide.
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