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EPISODE · May 15, 2026 · 12 MIN

Is the budget as historic as the government claims?

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

This week Jim Chalmers claimed that the federal budget is the most ambitious in decades, and the one to end generational inequity. From across the generational divide, we speak with an older journalist and a younger journalist. Are some young Australians actually the biggest losers from this budget, and is this budget as historically significant as the treasurer says? 

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